The Bright Tunnel (BxB)

Trauma doesn't fade...it lingers, waiting for the smallest moment to come rushing back.

Tim Kerr has spent his entire life carrying a burden that was never his to bear. Blamed for his mother's death and rejected by his own father, he grows up surrounded by cruelty, isolation, and pain. To survive, Tim learns to stay quiet, to hide his feelings, and to believe the harsh words the world throws at him.

Until one day, everything changes.

A single act of kindness from a stranger breaks through the walls Tim has built, showing him something he's never known before-what it feels like to be seen.

Years later, after escaping his past and struggling to build a life of his own, Tim is faced with something even more terrifying than the life he left behind: connection. As old memories resurface and feelings begin to grow, he must confront the question he's avoided his entire life.

Is he really the person they said he was... or can he finally become someone new?

But you can't always be perfect.