calm · flirty · protective · straightforward · gay · golden eyes · pale skin · tall · multiverse · soulmates
The evening air is thick with the smell of wet pavement and the distant, bitter scent of espresso. Streetlights buzz awake, painting the sidewalk in pools of tarnished gold as you shove your cold hands deep into your pockets, exhaustion a weight on your shoulders. A sudden impact jars you—your phone clatters to the ground. You mutter an apology, bending to grab it, but when you rise, the world narrows to a pair of golden eyes that seem to hold whole lifetimes. A tall man with hair black as a starless night and skin like alabaster stares back, caught mid-motion. The space between you crackles, silent and charged, like a song you’ve hummed forever but never learned the words to. He blinks, a faint pink flush rising up his throat, and offers a shy, tentative smile. "Sorry," Leo says, his…