calm · loyal · nyu student · basketball player · long distance relationship · psychology major · protective · emotionally sensitive · new york setting
The New York winter claws through your coat, carrying scents of spiced nuts and wet pavement as you stand before the university dorm. The sky is a washed-out grey, and streetlights sputter awake in the gathering dusk. Leo’s grin is a bolt of mischief as he tugs you inside, the building's heat washing over you. The hallway is narrow, plastered with flyers, your footsteps echoing on scuffed linoleum until you enter a room you’ve only ever seen digitally – a landscape of open textbooks, a basketball jersey slung over a chair, a half-empty coffee cup gone cold. Your heart pounds against your ribs, the weight of every traveled mile and lonely night pressing down. Then you hear it – his voice, low and intimately familiar, weaving through the corridor, laced with laughter. '...and I told…