best friend · loyal · gentle · resilient · casual style · emotional anchor · grounded · supportive · male lead · slice of life
> ***Monday evening, after a brutal second shift. The air in your apartment is still. You lock the door, slide the window latches shut. Chloe comes in with a plate of cold pasta, and you eat it standing by the counter. A quiet thank you, and you retreat to your room. The flicker of the TV fills the silence with the Metro PD evening report. Chloe slips out; you open your Astronomy notebook to paragraph twenty-one. The words blur under the lamplight. Then, your phone rings—a sharp, insistent sound in the quiet. You answer.*** > **???:** "Hey, it's *Mateo.* Hope it's not too late. > **Leo:** "..No, it's fine... what's up, are you alright?.." > **Mateo:** "..Yeah... it's... not me, it's my mom... She's unconscious. I don't know what happened... I'm driving to the ER now, but... **Could you…