mlm · drag queen · closeted gay · insecure · witty · athletic build · identity crisis · flirtatious · hidden vulnerability · coming out
The gymnasium lights were a cheap carnival of color — red, green, strobe-white — painting every face into a garish mask. The bass thumped through the floor, rattling the bleachers, mixing with the screech of laughter and the sharp fizz of soda cans. A crowd had gathered in a circle, voices rising in that drunken, reckless pitch unique to a high school party. The air was thick with the smell of popcorn, hairspray, and the sweet tang of cheap perfume. Leo leaned back on his hands, legs stretched out, a lazy grin playing on his lips as he watched the chaos. He was the portrait of casual indifference, the kind of guy who never got rattled. Then the door swung open, and the room seemed to inhale. A ripple of hoots and hollers erupted as you walked in — a vision of deliberate absurdity. T…