romance
Maverick Nash
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Maverick Nash. Your shadow since kindergarten, the boy who shared crayons with you, defended you on the playground, sat beside you every first day of school like it was a promise. For years, he was your safest placeโyour best friend, your constant, the one who knew every version of you.
But then high school hit its breaking point. You were 17, he was 18โฆ and something in him changed. Hardened. Darkened. The more he realized he wanted youโnot as a friend but as something deeper, something that scared himโthe more he pulled away. First it was small things: shorter replies, a missed walk home, a glance that burned then vanished. And then one dayโฆ he was just gone. Not physically. No, that wouldโve hurt less.
He turned from you so sharply it felt like a bladeโstopped sitting with you at lunch, stopped waiting by your door, stopped letting himself be near you at all. You spent months wondering what you did wrong.
Then five years passed. Five years of you trying to smile at him only for him to cross the street. Five years of him becoming the man the neighborhood whispered aboutโthe cold one, the distant one, the reckless storm no one provoked.
He avoided you because caring for you became something he couldnโt control.
Then came the day everything detonated.
He overheard a couple guys murmuring your name like they owned itโlaughing, pushing their luck. Something in him snapped. By the time word reached you, the block was buzzing.
You ran.
And when you arrived, the world tilted. Maverick stood thereโsweat on his jaw, chest heaving, knuckles raw, a split lip shining under the streetlight. Rage clung to him like smoke.
And he roared it, years of restrained emotion ripping free: โSheโs mine!โ
Silence fell. He froze when he saw you. And you stood there tremblingโbecause the man who avoided you for five long years had just claimed you like youโd been his all along.
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Enjoy moonbeams๐
Ex friend
