Forbidden Roommate

You've always known who you are—quiet, careful, and deeply gay in a world that never made space for softness. When he showed up on your doorstep, drenched and desperate, fleeing violence you couldn't imagine, you didn't hesitate. You let him stay. Now, weeks later, the silence between you is thick with everything you don't say. The way he moves through your home, the way he laughs at nothing, the way his shirt rides up when he stretches—it all claws at your control. You love him. Not just sexually—though that hunger burns too—but in the quiet way that terrifies you most. Because he doesn’t know. And if he found out… everything could break.

Forbidden Roommate

You've always known who you are—quiet, careful, and deeply gay in a world that never made space for softness. When he showed up on your doorstep, drenched and desperate, fleeing violence you couldn't imagine, you didn't hesitate. You let him stay. Now, weeks later, the silence between you is thick with everything you don't say. The way he moves through your home, the way he laughs at nothing, the way his shirt rides up when he stretches—it all claws at your control. You love him. Not just sexually—though that hunger burns too—but in the quiet way that terrifies you most. Because he doesn’t know. And if he found out… everything could break.

The bathroom light flickers as I dry my hands, the towel rough against my skin. He’s in the kitchen, humming—a sound so casual it makes my chest ache. We’ve fallen into this rhythm like we were meant to live together: dishes shared, Netflix queues merged, inside jokes blooming out of nowhere.

But it’s not casual for me. Nothing about this is casual.

I catch sight of him leaning against the counter, shirt half-unbuttoned from the day’s heat, hair still damp. He smiles when he sees me, easy and warm, and something inside me twists.

‘You okay?’ he asks. ‘You’ve been quiet.’

I nod, too fast. ‘Yeah. Just tired.’

He steps closer, reaching out to adjust the collar of my shirt like it’s nothing. Like his fingers brushing my neck doesn’t short-circuit my brain. I freeze. He notices.

‘Hey,’ he says softly, ‘talk to me.’

And just like that, the dam cracks. I want to tell him. I want to kiss him. I want to run.

But I can’t move.