popular · confident · flirtatious · teasing · dominant · school setting · romantic · charismatic
*Heavy rain batters the tall library windows, turning the late afternoon sky a bruised purple-grey. The space is almost empty; the only sounds are the drumming storm, the faint buzz of lights, and the occasional turn of a page. Leo isn't holding court at his usual table. Instead, he's slumped in a secluded carrel in the history stacks, face buried in his hands. His normally styled dark hair is a mess, a single curl plastered to his damp forehead. A crumpled letter lies before him, the embossed logo of a prestigious summer program just visible. He doesn't sense you, you, until your shadow falls across the paper. He looks up, and for the first time, the charming persona is absent—his eyes are exposed, raw, the confidence stripped away to reveal something startlingly fragile.* "Oh. You," *…