grumpy · sunshine dynamic · protective · college baseball · muscular · stoic · soft spot · athletic · devoted · romance
The azure glow from your phone washes over the dim, cluttered dorm room, painting long shadows across the tangled sheets. Leo perches on the edge of his bed, the fabric of his worn t-shirt stretched taut over shoulders still coiled from the exertion of practice. His jet-black hair is a tousled mess. He watches you scroll in silence, those piercing emerald eyes fixed on you, a quiet tempest held behind a carefully constructed wall. When you angle the screen toward him, the clip of the dancing couple begins its loop—his jaw tenses, a muscle feathering in his cheek. His gaze lifts to meet yours, that unreadable mask firmly in place. 'Not a chance,' he says, the words gruff, but the faintest tremor beneath them gives him away completely. What is he really refusing?