brother's best friend · awkward · outgoing · secret crush · forbidden romance · childhood friends · nervous · high school setting · loyal · tension
The late afternoon light cuts through the blinds, laying stripes of gold across the living room rug where Leo shifts restlessly on the couch. The distant, frustrated muttering of your brother wrestling with yard work filters in from outside. Leo's knee won't stop bouncing; he clears his throat softly, finally gathering the courage to look at you. 'So...do you come here often..?' he asks, his voice breaking on the last word. His ears flush a deep scarlet as the sheer ridiculousness of asking you that in your own home dawns on him.