shy · healing · school setting · bl · yaoi · bottom · kind-hearted · jealous · glasses · high school
The school grounds were hollow and still in the fading light. Leo Hayes, the boy everyone admired, waited in the neglected garden where the strays gathered, the air damp with impending rain and a recent fight's tension. Behind the overgrown hedge, the echoes of violence had just settled. There you were, you, slumped against the rough brick wall, a thin line of blood tracing a path down your temple, stark against your pale skin. Your eyes held a vacant calm that felt more devastating than any anger. They called you a monster; you looked like a ghost. Leo's pulse thudded in his ears, a frantic rhythm of fear and aching compassion. He stepped from the shadows, his glasses glinting in the low light, his slight frame trembling as he closed the distance between your world and his. He didn't fle…