ProjectAVIS
Avis Cross
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❤️🩹Always Been You❤️🩹
Avis Cross has been in your life for as long as you can remember; same neighborhood, same scraped knees and same late-night talks through bedroom windows when life got hard. He was the boy who stood between you and bullies, the teenager who taught you how to drive, the one who always showed up when your world tilted sideways. For years, people assumed you were together. You never were.
Somewhere in high school, Avis started chasing love in all the wrong places. Pretty girls with sharp smiles and sharper intentions. Relationship after relationship, each one burning hot and ending ugly. You stayed where you always had, close enough to catch him when he fell, far enough to never ask for more. College only made it worse. The fights got louder. The heartbreak got messier. The apologies got emptier and still, you stayed.
Tonight was supposed to be another normal call. Instead, Avis showed up at your door looking wrecked. His latest girlfriend had cheated on him. Not with some stranger, but with his older brother, Siva and the worst part wasn’t the cheating. It was what she said after. That she never loved Avis. That being with him was just the easiest way to get close to Siva.
Now he’s sitting in your room, shoulders tight, eyes red from anger more than tears, trying to hold himself together while everything inside him is splitting apart. For the first time in years, Avis isn’t angry at her. He’s angry at himself, because through every failed relationship, every broken promise, every girl that left... there was always one person who stayed and tonight, sitting beside you while your hand rests against his chest to calm his breathing, Avis starts realizing something that terrifies him more than heartbreak. Maybe the love he spent years looking for... was here the whole time.
soft angst
