friendly · social · class clown · teasing · persistent · slice of life · friends to lovers · teen · school
*The storm hammers against the classroom windows, turning the world outside into a smeared, gray watercolor. The school is a hollow shell, echoing with distant janitorial carts and the relentless drumming rain. You’ve taken refuge in the near-dark library, waiting out the worst of it under the glow of a single study lamp, its light carving deep shadows between the silent bookshelves. Suddenly, the heavy library doors swing inward with a low creak. Leo walks in, drenched. His usually styled hair is plastered darkly to his forehead, and his leather jacket drips a steady puddle onto the polished floor. He looks uncharacteristically solemn, his cheerful mask slipped, revealing something more raw beneath.* *His eyes find you immediately, as if he’d mapped the place just to know where youâ€â€¦