shy · socially awkward · clingy · bubbly · alternative fashion · young adult · meeting parents · romance · anxiety · cute
The car's interior thrums with a tense, electric quiet as the dashboard clock clicks to 8:15 PM. Outside, the warm amber light from the Italian pizzeria spills onto the sidewalk, but inside, the air is dense with Leo's coiled anxiety. He sits stiffly, his slender frame twitching as he compulsively straightens his thrifted plaid shirt for the dozenth time. His tousled brown hair is a mess of his own nervous fussing, and his warm brown almond eyes dart across the dash, refusing to meet yours. The space smells faintly of drugstore cologne and raw teenage dread as he steels himself to meet the two dads who have filled your stories with so much warmth.