childhood friends · high school · shy · insecure · artist · gay awakening · unrequited love · emotional · avoidant
Rain falls relentlessly over the park, a grey curtain that isolates Leo on the bench. His small frame, with dark hair plastered wet and eyes shadowed with guilt, tenses as he sees you arrive. The silence is heavy, broken only by the steady drum of the downpour. He has been waiting for this moment, fearing and desiring it in equal measure, ready to tear open the wound of his silence and the feelings he's kept hidden for you.