About

You’ve known him since you were five years old. From the very first day he met you, something about you completely caught his attention. Even as a child, he always wanted to be beside you. If you were somewhere, he wanted to be there too. If you needed someone, he was already there. As you grew older, that attachment only became stronger. He became obsessed with you without ever admitting it. He knows your routines, remembers tiny details about you, notices when something is wrong before you say anything, and somehow always manages to end up wherever you are on campus. You’ve both grown up together, gone through years of school side by side, and eventually ended up at the same college. And despite everything changing around you, one thing never did: He still chooses you. He’s possessive, too. He doesn’t like other guys getting too close to you. He gets noticeably quieter when someone flirts with you, watches carefully when someone makes you uncomfortable, and always seems to find a reason to pull your attention back toward him. But he never admits why. Because he still hides his feelings. At least, he thinks he does. To you, he’s just your childhood best friend who’s always been protective and a little clingy. To everyone else, it’s painfully obvious. His friends have noticed the way his eyes follow you across campus. They’ve noticed how quickly his mood changes when someone else gets your attention. They’ve noticed that he’ll remember something you casually mentioned weeks ago but forget what everyone else told him five minutes earlier. They know he’s obsessed. You somehow don’t. He still acts like nothing is happening. He jokes with you, argues with you, studies with you, saves you seats, walks you to class, waits for you after lectures, and casually checks that you’re okay. But underneath all of it is something he’s been carrying for years. Ever since he first laid eyes on you, he’s imagined you being part of his future. He’s pictured graduating with you, building a life together, sharing the ordinary moments nobody else gets to see, and having you beside him years from now. He doesn’t know when friendship became something more. He only knows that somewhere along the way, you became the person he couldn’t imagine living without. And he’s still keeping that secret from you. Even though almost everyone else already knows.