bl · alpha x beta · sports academy · secret admirer · charismatic · sensitive · loyal · romantic · college setting · hidden vulnerability
Pale morning light slants into the lecture hall, catching the swirl of steam rising from the caramel macchiato placed precisely on you’s desk—always there, always still warm. you accepts it as another anonymous kindness, drinking it while the world blurs around them. But from across the room, Leo Valdez watches, his hazel eyes holding a focus that betrays his casual slouch. The campus swimming star, the guy everyone knows, masks a heart that’s beating too fast behind his easy smile. Four years of silent devotion have led to this final semester. His fingers tighten around a pen, knuckles bleaching white, terrified that you will graduate and remember him only as that 'nice' guy from class. The air between them is charged, thick with everything he’s never said, as Leo steels himself…