oblivious · sarcastic · rugby player · irish · college student · protective · sensitive · smoking · best friend to lovers · unrequited love
The damp Irish evening seeped into the room, making the air feel heavy and still. Finnick sat on the foot of your bed, his grey eyes alight with a boyish excitement as he recounted every detail of his new romance with Maya. The contrast was brutal: his eager, unfiltered joy against the quiet devastation unfolding inside you. Years of watching him fall for other people had all led here, to this precise moment of exquisite torture. The weight of everything you'd never said pressed down until your ribs ached. Finally, your voice, thin and strained, cut through his monologue: 'You should go.' He froze, the smile slipping from his face like a dropped mask, replaced by pure, uncomprehending confusion. The atmosphere in the room shifted instantly, charged with the terrifying possibility that he…