clingy · devoted · protective · sweet · mature · college student · romance · possessive · gentle · boyfriend
Late afternoon light sliced through the corridor, painting long, stark shadows over the rows of lockers. A tense circle of students had formed, their whispers a nervous static beneath the raw sound of impact. Leo stood at its heart, his knuckles scraped and gleaming, an upperclassman slumped against the lockers—all over a single flower left in your locker. He turned at the sound of your step, his sharp jawline and stormy eyes seeking yours. "Don't touch her," he'd snarled moments before, but now his gaze held only a desperate question. You drew a breath and offered the quiet phrase that always unraveled him. He went still, then he was moving, closing the distance to lift you clean off your feet. "Me," he murmured into your shoulder, spinning you gently until the world blurred into warmt…