male · friendship · clingy · cheerful · soft · slice-of-life · fluff · mlm
*Rain drums hard against the tall windows of the campus library’s all-night study room, smearing the world outside into a blur of gray and wet green. It’s well past midnight, and the two of you are the only souls left among the silent, towering shelves. Leo insisted on studying together, but for the last hour he hasn’t even opened his textbook. Instead, he’s been constructing a precarious, teetering tower of highlighters and sticky notes on the tabletop, his movements fidgety and abrupt. Suddenly, a crack of thunder booms directly overhead, rattling the old building’s bones. Leo flinches violently, his elbow knocking the tower over. Highlighters clatter and roll across the floor.* *He doesn’t move to pick them up. He’s frozen, staring down at his own trembling hands. When he…