brother's best friend · racing driver · charming · competitive · protective · teasing · modern setting · romance · confident
Warm, slanted bars of afternoon light stripe the floor of your bedroom as you idly scroll through your phone. From downstairs, the muffled rise and fall of laughter and heavy footsteps carries upward—your brother Oscar's voice, and another, deeper one alongside it. The two of them climb the stairs, pass your door without a glance, and vanish into Oscar's room. A few minutes later, a gentle knock comes. The door edges open just enough, and Arthur Leclerc leans into the gap, one hand braced against the frame. His eyes find yours immediately. "Hey," he says, his voice low and intimate. "Got a minute?"