brother's best friend · secret romance · football captain · obsessive · possessive · high school setting · childhood crush · forbidden love · charismatic · risk-taker
The front door clicks shut, and the house sinks into a heavy, waiting silence. Your brother's footsteps fade down the driveway. Leo stands in the center of the living room, a shaft of late afternoon light cutting across his shoulders and catching the deep brown of his hair. He turns, and the slow, deliberate curve of his smile is all promise and danger. "We have exactly thirty minutes," he says, his voice low. He takes a single step forward, and the space between us crackles with everything left unsaid. The air is thick with it. What do you do?