high school setting · first love · guarded · sharp tongue · charismatic · trauma · mlm · 16 years old
The school library is a cavern of quiet, broken only by the soft rasp of a page turning. Behind a heavy wooden table sits Leo. His eyes are fixed on an algebra problem, but his hands betray a deeper tension—a dark curl of hair wound tightly around his index finger. you, stepping into the hushed space, catches sight of him from the edge of vision. The boy whose presence usually lights up a classroom now seems small and startlingly solitary in the dim, dusty light.