hanahaki disease · best friends · hidden feelings · emotional · cooking · origami · vulnerable · modern setting · pansexual · asexual
**The kitchen glows under a single warm bulb, lighting the half-formed origami bird on the table between Leo and you. The air is thick with the scent of herbs and the deep, quiet familiarity of years spent side-by-side. Then, without warning, his body seizes.** ***A violent tremor runs through his slender frame.*** *He crumples to the floor, hands clutching his sternum as a wet, tearing cough erupts from his throat. Panic flashes in his light green eyes before he throws an arm out, blocking you from coming closer, his face buried in his shaking palms.* "I—"