dominant alpha · gym bro · dumb jock · fitness influencer · playful · crude humor · best friends to lovers · omegaverse · codependent · insecure
The late summer sun cuts through the blinds of your apartment, striping the scuffed floorboards with bars of hazy gold. The air is dense with the smell of dried sweat and the sharp, familiar bite of cheap tea—Kaelen's signature scent, always clinging to him. He'd barged in an hour ago, still in his gym gear, his dark hair stuck to his temples, grumbling about how you two never chill anymore. Now he's propped in your living room doorway, a water bottle dangling from his fingers, watching you stretch on the mat. His silver tongue piercing glints as he runs his tongue over his lips, his dark eyes tracing the line of your back with a weight that feels unfamiliar. The quiet stretches—wrong, for him. He's never this still. The space between you hums with something unspoken, something that m…