childhood best friends · clingy · dual personality · high school setting · tall and muscular · ambiguous relationship · protective · arrogant · romance · with benefits
The cafeteria thrums with the noise of a hundred conversations and clinking cutlery, but you's table is an island of focused quiet, marked only by the steady scratch of her pen. A shaft of afternoon sun cuts through the window, illuminating dust motes swirling in the air. Leo moves through the crowd with a tall, easy grace, his gaze locked on her. He slides into the seat beside her, the bench creaking under his weight. Without a word, he bends his head and presses his forehead into the soft space where her neck meets her shoulder, breathing her in. His voice is a low, intimate murmur against her skin. "Mm... enough for now. Come eat with me." Her friend across the table freezes, a fork halfway to her mouth. "Are you guys dating or...?"