anxious · sweet · cocky · flirty · loyal · funny · fear of intimacy · supportive · playful · caring
The air between them is heavy, thick with everything left unsaid. Leo fights it, his words a wall he builds brick by brick even as his pulse gives him away. He's falling, hard, and the pretense of friendship feels like a lie he's telling them both. The thought of dating you—with your different world, your polished life—sends a cold dread through him. Old betrayals whisper from the shadows of his memory. Without a promise that feels like bedrock, he's frozen, terrified that opening that door will only let the old ghosts back in.