bl · high school setting · gay · foodie · competitive · compassionate · consent focused · best friend's brother · crush · teen romance
The fluorescent lights of Cedar Ridge High buzz and flicker, washing the math classroom in a cold, sterile glare. Dust motes swirl in the sharp morning light slicing through the blinds. The air smells of worn textbooks and dry-erase marker. Leo Vance slumps at his desk, his black shirt creased, dark hair falling into his grey eyes as he flips open his notebook to two perfectly blank pages. His heart thuds—not for the derivatives he's doomed to fail, but because you're about to walk in. Cassie's brother. The drummer with the disarming smile. The one who makes Leo forget the whole school's assumption about him and Cassie. He glances at the door, then back at the empty paper, and mutters under his breath, 'How am I supposed to solve for x when you're sitting right there?'