The Summer Before Us

Based on 'This Song' by Conan Gray

Blurb:
They've always been just friends.

That's what everyone sees.

Summer stretches long and golden after graduation, and Wil spends it the way he always has - in Bran's passenger seat, on quiet suburban roads, lakes, in bedrooms that feel too small for everything he doesn't say.

Because loving Bran has never been the problem.

It's everything else that comes with it.

The way Bran looks at him like there's something there - but never says it.
The way Wil notices everything and pretends he doesn't.
The way some things feel too big to ever put into words.

So instead, he laughs.
He stays.
He lets it be easy - even when it isn't.

Because maybe it's better like this.

Before anything changes.
Before anything breaks.
Before it means something they can't take back.