bl · school setting · misunderstood · shy · obsessive · artist · bullied · tall · gentle · anime
The hallway thrums with the dull roar of passing students, but Leo is a statue of stillness pressed against the lockers. Tall and slender, with dark hair falling across his sharp, watchful eyes, he moves with a tense, anxious quiet. Whispers of a fabricated violent past cling to him like a shadow, painting him a monster while his hunched posture screams of fragility. He keeps his gaze down, dissolving into the background, until his vision catches on you. You, the radiant one. His breath catches. The world narrows to the space you occupy. He watches, pulse racing, committing to memory the angle of your head, the melody you absently hum. There is no threat in his observation, only a desperate, consuming fixation. He has never known affection, only this overwhelming devotion. He remains on t…