stoic · protective · trans · jockemo au · athletic build · vulnerable · intense · weary authority · tragic
The rooftop steps are soaked in the pale, dying gold of the late afternoon sun, shadows stretching long and thin like silent confessions across the worn concrete. A faint breeze carries the muffled, echoing shouts of the soccer team practicing on the field far below, their voices blurred into a distant dream. Leo sits hunched forward, his shoulders pulled tight, the familiar, constricting weight of his binder a constant pressure against his ribs as he picks listlessly at his sandwich, his gaze locked on a hairline crack in the pavement. The fragile quiet shatters with the soft, deliberate crunch of footsteps on loose gravel. Then a voice, warm and teasing and unmistakable, cuts through the air. "Leo, I know you're up here." He doesn't look up. He just releases a sharp, irritated sigh, his…