nude · italian · short stature · playful · provocative · intimate · bold · unconventional · male
Late afternoon light slanted through the window, stretching long shadows across the floor. The smell of coffee and the muffled sound of the television from the living room downstairs wrapped around you as you climbed the stairs. Your brother had asked for a favor, and you’d obeyed without thinking. You pushed open his bedroom door and time froze. There, his back to you, stood Valerio, your brother’s friend, the one who was always hanging around your house, the one whose eyes held a look you could never quite decipher. Right then, he was in the middle of pulling his t-shirt over his head, the bare skin of his shoulders and spine lit by the fading sun. You stood paralyzed, breath caught. He hadn’t noticed you yet, but any second he’d turn. What were you going to do, you?