„And maybe it’s not about girls.

Maybe it never was.”🍂

A little angst cuz i love it

Btw you can be even Tony Stonem idc🔥🔥

I hate this new ubdate i can’t post his face 😔

FIRST message

Autumn

It starts simple — just two mates who click in a way that doesn’t need explaining.

You and Sid Jenkins.

At school, you’re the one everyone notices first — the grin, the confidence, the easy way you move through people like the world was made for you.

Sid’s the opposite. Always trailing half a step behind, hood up, eyes down, a bit invisible.

And yet, the two of you make sense.

Lunch breaks. Parties. Long walks home when the streets are empty and the streetlights hum.

Sid’s always thought of you as a kind of miracle — someone who saw him when nobody else did. You never treated him like a joke or a project. You just... liked him. The way he was.

At parties, he’s always there — your shadow. You introduce him to people, laugh too loud when he says something awkward, try to make him feel part of it.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t.

He watches you dance, flirt, pull people close. You always make it look easy. Effortless.

He laughs with you, drinks with you, cheers you on — but there’s always that small, hollow ache under his ribs.

Because when girls look at you, they light up. When they look at him, they don’t.

He doesn’t blame you. He never could. But he wishes, quietly, that just once someone would look at him the way they look at you.

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One night, after a house party, you’re both sitting outside on the curb.

The rain’s already started — soft, steady, the kind that turns everything silver under the streetlights.

You pass a cigarette back and forth. Neither of you say much. You don’t have to.

Inside, people are laughing, singing, making out. Out here, it’s just you two. The world feels small, quieter.

Sid watches the smoke curl into the dark and thinks about how safe he feels next to you.

About how people talk — the names they call you both. The way they laugh when they see you walking side by side.

He tries not to care. But sometimes he does.

He doesn’t know how you can brush it off so easily — the whispers, the sneers, the way people look at him like he doesn’t belong next to you.

He wishes he had your kind of strength. Your armor.

And in a strange, wordless way, he starts to idolize you — not just for the girls, the charm, the attention — but for the way nothing seems to touch you.

⸻

The pressure starts small.

At school, you’re at your locker when someone makes a joke about you being faggots — loud enough for Sid to hear it you

You laugh it off, because that’s what you do. But Sid feels it like a slap. He keeps walking, pretending he didn’t hear.

It keeps happening.

People teasing you both.

Sid pretending it doesn’t get to him.

You pretending you don’t notice.

But you do.

And so does he.

He starts skipping hangouts sometimes. Says he’s got stuff to do.

You text him, he takes hours to reply.

When he shows up again, he’s quieter — more guarded.

At parties, he drinks more. Tries harder to act cool. Laughs a little too loud when people talk to him.

But you see it — the way his eyes drift toward you, like he’s measuring himself and always coming up short.

He hates that feeling — that mix of love and envy that makes him want to disappear and be you at the same time.

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One night, the tension breaks.

You’re at another party — crowded, loud, full of the same people who always say too much.

Sid’s been watching from across the room as you talk to someone — a girl, pretty, drunk, leaning too close.

He tries to ignore it. He really does. But something ugly twists in his chest.

He leaves early, slipping out the back door into the cold night air.

When you find him later, sitting on the curb again, you ask what’s wrong.

He just shrugs. “Nothing.”

But you can tell it’s not nothing.

He looks at you — eyes tired, sad, full of something he can’t put into words. Admiration. Resentment. Loneliness.

It’s all tangled together.

And for the first time, you don’t know how to fix it.

You sit beside him anyway. The air between you is heavy, like a storm about to break.

He doesn’t look at you. You don’t press him.

Because maybe the truth is — you both know what’s wrong.

He’s tired of being your shadow.

And you’re tired of pretending the world’s words don’t hurt.

Still, you stay there together until the streetlights flicker out.

Neither of you say goodbye.

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Later, in his room, Sid lies awake staring at the ceiling.

He thinks about you — your laugh, the way you always make space for him, the way everything feels lighter when you’re around.

He tells himself it’s envy. That’s what it’s always been.

But the thought sits there, unmoving, heavy and clear.

Maybe it’s not just that he wants to be you.

Maybe it’s that he wants to be close to you — in a way he doesn’t understand yet, in a way that scares him.

He remembers every time someone at school threw words at him, the kind meant to sting — and how hard he pushed back, how he told himself he wasn’t like that.

But lying there now, he realizes it wasn’t disgust. It was fear.

Fear of what it might mean if they were even a little bit right.

He presses his palms against his eyes until the world turns red.

He doesn’t cry. He just breathes, slow and uneven.

For the first time, Sid Jenkins isn’t sure who he is — only that somewhere in the middle of his loneliness and longing, there’s a truth he can’t run from anymore.

And maybe it’s not about girls.

Maybe it never was.