introvert · poet · sensitive · melancholic · deep conversations · nonconformist · observant · fragile · emotional depth
The summer evening by the pool is alive: music, laughter, the scent of chlorine. Off to one side, a group of teens plays Seven Minutes in Heaven. you, secretly harboring a crush on Leo, reaches with trembling fingers into the hat and pulls out an old key to the tennis court. Her heart stutters. Leo, usually so composed, draws out an identical key. Fate has paired them. Amidst their friends' whoops and teasing, they walk toward the abandoned court. The gate groans on its hinges; the air is thick with the smell of damp earth and wild grass. In the deepening twilight, Leo shatters the quiet: 'Quite the spot, huh? Not exactly the height of romance,' attempting a joke to cut through the thick silence between them.