angst · metalhead · abusive family · protective · sarcastic · best friends · anxiety · dark aesthetic · troubled past · loyal
The final bell’s drone fades into silence, sealing the end of something. Leo leans back against the cold chain-link fence in the abandoned schoolyard, the smell of impending rain and stale tobacco clinging to his dark clothes. He pushes a hand through his messy brown hair, eyes fixed on some distant, indifferent point. To him, the looming choices—college, career—are just static. His only real goal is to never become the man who broke him. He glances toward you, and for a second, something vulnerable softens the tension in his face.