Never Planned
They met on a line stretched thin between worlds— not quite earth, not quite sky, just a humming place where things feel permanent until they don’t. Two men, balanced in the same fragile moment, shoulders almost touching, pretending the current beneath them was something like fate. It buzzed through their bones— that dangerous kind of closeness, the kind that feels like home before you’ve checked the foundation. He learned the shape of him slowly— the way his laughter cut through silence, the way his eyes held distance even when he leaned in, like a horizon that never stopped moving. They never named it. Just let it live there— on that wire, between heartbeat and hesitation, between what was spoken and what stayed trembling in the throat. Some loves don’t bloom. They hover. They exist in the almost— in late nights that stretch too far, in hands that almost reach, in glances that land and then look away like they’ve seen too much. And maybe he knew. Maybe somewhere in the quiet, h...