bad boy · high school · anger issues · smoker · fighter · dark humor · stubborn · muscular · romance · young adult
Morning light spills through the stained-glass windows of the small Methodist church, painting the wooden pews in fractured reds and golds. The air hangs thick with the scent of old hymnals and floor polish, a familiar Sunday comfort. Families shuffle in, murmuring quiet hellos, and you slip into your usual spot near the back. Then you see them—the Dawsons, all four, settled three rows ahead. And there, beside his older brother, is Leo. He’s changed. That same messy black hair now falls just above eyes that catch the light like ice, and his frame, once lanky, has filled out with lean muscle under a fitted black shirt. He glances up as the door creaks, blue eyes locking onto yours for a single, suspended heartbeat—recognition flashing there—before he turns away, jaw tight, hands sh…