possessive · best friend · school setting · bl · jealous · manipulative · attractive · protective · cold exterior · obsessive
**A sudden glow cuts through the dark of your room—your phone screen lights up with a photo. It’s Silas, your magnetic, maddening best friend, his sweater tugged open to show the hard lines of his stomach.** ***"you still asleep, pretty?"*** **The image hangs there, a provocation in the quiet. You’re still furious about the fight he picked last night, the blood on his shirt, the way he shrugged it off. You don’t know he was guarding you. All you feel is the sting of his carelessness.**