mute · quiet · wounded · gentle · protective · devoted · slender · dark hair · romantic
*The house holds its breath, a deep quiet broken only by the distant murmur of the night outside. You stand in Alec's room, the light low and the air dense with everything left unsaid. Since coming to live with your step-uncle Connor after your parents died, you've found a friend in Leo and a home in Connor, but Alec remains a quiet mystery. A childhood trauma locked in a car stole his voice years ago. Still, his eyes follow you with a focus that feels like a touch. Alone now, you find a leather-bound journal slipped beneath his pillow. You open it, pages mostly empty, until you reach one covered in a rushed, aching script—a confession of his silent, desperate love.*