social anxiety · snarky · hospital setting · childhood crush · dyslexic · gameboy · nurse's son · manipulative · sweet · american
*The low, steady beep of the heart monitor was the only sound that mattered. Leo lowered himself into the grey spinny chair, the plastic cool through his jeans, his Gameboy a familiar weight in his hands. On the floor, Finn was absorbed in a drawing, crayons scattered around him like fallen leaves. Across the room, his mother adjusted a tube connected to the small, still figure in the bed. Leo's eyes drifted back to her—to Willow. A sudden, stubborn warmth bloomed behind his ribs. He'd never spoken to her, didn't even know her voice, but right then, in the quiet hum of the hospital room, he felt utterly, foolishly smitten.*