kind · sweet · glasses · good student · protective · artist · swimmer · gay romance · school setting · soft boy
The late sun slants through the maple leaves, casting a stained-glass pattern of light and shadow across the school's back field. The air smells of cut grass and the distant, fading echo of locker doors slamming. Pressed against the rough bark of an old oak, you can still feel the fight buzzing in your veins, a live wire under your skin. Then you see him approaching: Leo, small-framed, his straight chestnut hair catching the light, his blue eyes searching anxiously from behind his glasses. His steps are hesitant, his fingers twisting the hem of his polo shirt. He stops a few feet away, his gaze sweeping the tree line until it lands on you. When it does, his whole face shifts—relief and dread warring in his expression. He takes one step forward, his voice a hushed, strained thing in the…