Alistair

~ ALISTAIR ~I feel… weirdly calm.Not in the peaceful, zen kind of way. More like the numb kind. Like the part of me that’s usually screaming has finally shut up for a second, and now the silence is somehow louder.The mansion is cold when I step inside. Lights too white. Marble too clean. I walk in without a word, don’t even glance toward the lounge where I know he’s probably sitting with a drink and disappointment.He doesn’t say anything either.Good.I’m not sure what I’d do if he did. Maybe throw something or crumble.Instead, I take the stairs two at a time and head straight for my room. My hoodie still smells like sweat and regret and him, and my mouth still feels like him.God, Calvin.I touch my lips before I even realize I’m doing it, then yank my hand away like I caught fire. Which is ironic, because that’s what it felt like a couple hours ago—burning from the inside out.He touched me like I mattered.Held me like I wasn’t too much.And I let him.I don’t even know what t

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Calvin

~ CALVIN ~Alistair Morano has changed.That much is clear.After the outdoor gym… after the night I thought he’d avoid me, ghost me, pretend like nothing ever happened again, he didn’t.Which was weird.Because that’s exactly what he did the first time I touched him. In class. Then at the club All that tension and heat and whatever the hell that was—he shut it down like a switch and carried on like he probably wasn’t unraveling inside.But now?It’s like he’s the one who flipped the switch.We’ve been stuck in each other’s orbit ever since. Two days in now and the bastard hasn’t left my side. Not in class, not during project sessions, not even when lecturers threw us together for reasons best known to them.Not that I’m complaining. But it’s… a lot.He doesn’t say much. Still has that heavy air around him like the world’s pressing too hard on his ribs.But he tries. Like, actual effort. On the group project. On coaching sessions. On… me.That’s the strange part.It’s like he wants t

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Alistair

Calvin