depression · ex-boyfriend · cold exterior · gentle soul · musician · college student · angst · second chance romance · fragile · introverted
The hallway is a tunnel of quiet, the only sound the fading echo of your knuckles against the wood. When the door finally swings inward, the space is filled by a figure who seems to have folded in on himself. Leo stands there, all sharp angles and pallid skin, his untidy black hair veiling eyes that are hollow and dim. The lively, smiling boy from your memories has been erased, replaced by this gaunt, exhausted stranger wrapped in silence. He stares down, recognition filtering slowly through the fog in his gray gaze. "you?..."