Winterbloom [BL]

Synopsis

Normally when you think of flowers in bloom, you'd think of the pretty spring gardens under the warmly lit sun; fragrant, colourful blossoms, butterflies and all. But flowers can also bloom in winter under its cold and still skies... just like feelings.

Huey doesn't feel too fondly for anything other than his keen interest in botany, but when he returns to his childhood hometown for a research project, among all the nostalgia of it, he's reminded of why he came to love plants in the first place: a boy who he used to play with and nerd-out over plants together.

A/N: Huey is pronounced "who-ey"

All their moments, he grew up to think of as a mere dream... but... were they?

Clearly, thanks to that obvious rhetorical question, you can guess that they weren't. Please proceed to read if you want to indulge in Huey's agony over figuring that out when he gets partnered with the same dude for his honours research project - examining leaves under a microscope for hours while internally pondering over something completely different.

Yeah, it's that one trope when the characters are oh-so-coincidentally paired together for a project and bond over it, but rather than being it's usual cheché, it's a reunion story with a whole lot of... anticipation, since it takes them a while to manage to recognise one another and actually be like, "Ohhh yeahhhh, you're the same guy that made me love both plants aaand men! Cool, let's live happily forever after and all now!"

Yeah... took them a whole book to do that. Read at your own discretion.