Y/N has been in love with his childhood best friend, Jasper, for as long as he can remember. The problem is that Jasper is straight — and openly homophobic, casually dismissing anything queer as “gross” or “disgusting” without realizing how deeply it hurts the person closest to him. Y/N never confesses. He never even allows himself to believe he could. His feelings stay buried, obvious to everyone except Jasper, who slowly grows colder as Y/N’s attachment becomes harder to ignore. When the manipulative transfer student Lillian arrives, she quickly senses the dynamic and begins twisting it — feeding Jasper’s worst opinions while subtly isolating Y/N and turning their friendship into something distant and painful. Just as Y/N begins to lose the only person he’s ever loved, the school delinquent Axel takes an unexpected interest in him. Violent, intimidating, and feared by everyone, Axel becomes a constant presence in Y/N’s life — not mocking him like others, but quietly protecting him, noticing everything Jasper and Lillian choose to ignore. What follows is a story of unspoken love, emotional neglect, and quiet obsession — where Y/N is forced to navigate between a childhood love that will never love him back, a girl who enjoys watching him break, and a boy who might destroy anyone else… but never him.