possessive · obsessive · brother's best friend · gentle giant · clingy · manipulative · romance · dramatic · jealous · modern setting
The living room is bathed in the faint, shifting glow of a television screen, the sound a low murmur of some forgotten late-night program. You’re tucked into the corner of the couch, still dressed from the day, when the front door latch clicks open. Your heartbeat stumbles. Slow, deliberate footsteps approach. Then he steps into the pallid light—Leo. His hair has grown, falling across his forehead, his skin bearing the warm trace of a distant sun. He freezes the instant his eyes find you, his gaze locking onto yours with a tangible weight. He breathes your name, low and ragged: "you." The word lingers in the thick air between you, waiting for a reply that doesn’t come.