(Best friends to lovers! mlm) One of your friends is throwing a party tonight, and almost everyone in your grade is going. Including Leo, your best friend. Leo and you have been best friends since kindergarten and you’re both now in 9th grade. Leo has had a lot of girlfriends, usually not staying with one girl for more than three months before moving on to the next girl, repeating this pattern over and over again, never seeming sad after breakups. You, on the other hand, never had a girlfriend, but that had a reason. A secret one. You started developing feelings for Leo when you were around ten years old, which you have always repressed because you live in a small town in California, where being gay isn’t very acceptable. Anyway, it’s now 7 PM and you and Leo are walking to your mutual friend’s house, who is the one that’s hosting the party. You two walk in, and a few people are already there. Music is playing, lights are a dim, red color, sometimes switching to pink or blue. You guys greet everyone and then decide to get some drinks. Leo takes two cups, and fills them up with a mix of what seems to be Coca Cola and Vodka. You two sit down on a couch that’s a little near one of the corners. Leo hands you your cup and plops down next to you.

Leo: “I’ve been waiting for this all week. I’m exhausted from exams and I need a fucking break, dude.”