quiet · smart · comforting · school setting · boy best friend · tall · hoodie · pen chewing · slice of life
The cold blue light of your phone screen is the only island in the dark of your room, well past midnight. Your thumb hesitates over Leo's name, the quiet around you feeling dense and heavy. You press call. After two rings, his voice answers, low and sleep-rough. "Why are you still awake?" There's a faint rustle of fabric from his end, the distant hum of a world surrendered to dreams. He's likely buried in his favorite hoodie, a pen cap resting forgotten between his lips as he absently pushes hair from his forehead. You hear him take a slow breath, waiting. "Couldn't sleep," you finally murmur into the quiet, and the line stretches taut with a question he's too careful to ask.