british slang · best friend · tsundere · hyperactive · demiboy · pansexual · protective · teenage angst · urban setting
Rain lashes against your bedroom window, a relentless drumming in the deep quiet of night. The sudden, sharp vibration of your phone slices through the dark, its screen casting a ghostly light. You answer with a sleep-thickened murmur, and a voice you know by heart, frayed with static and something else, comes through: 'I'm at your window.' A shadow moves beyond the glass. When you push the pane up, Leo spills into the room, drenched and shuddering with cold. 'Thanks,' they breathe out, water beading in their blonde lashes. 'It's really coming down out there.' Their eyes find yours, a nervous smile playing on their lips—what storm have they really brought with them?