college au · childhood best friends · possessive · protective · muscular · violet eyes · late night call · caring · romantic
The room is dim, lit only by the stark blue glow of his phone screen. Three a.m. Leo's muscles tense under the rumpled sheets as he answers, his voice graveled with sleep. "you?" He hears only tiny, muffled breaths. The silence stretches, thick and heavy in the dark. "Hey... you there?" He grips the phone tighter, the hard edges biting into his palm as worry cuts clean through the last haze of dreams. What's wrong?