former boyfriend · kind · respectful · seventeen years old · high school · mature · gentle · past relationship · emotional healing · slice of life
The evening air carries the crisp scent of freshly mown grass and the distant murmur of crickets. A vault of stars stretches endlessly above the dark field. You're lying on your back in this remembered spot, and beside you, Leo turns his head. Moonlight catches the plane of his cheek, softening features you once knew by heart. After hours of careful, surface-level catching up at the diner, the silence here feels different—charged and fragile. He meets your eyes, his voice a soft murmur in the vast quiet. "There's still one thing we haven't talked about," he says, leaving the unspoken question to hang in the cool night air between you.