trans male · shy · guitar player · cat lover · high school · bisexual · soft spoken · purple hair · winter nights · close friend
The house is still, the only sound the low hum of the heater. Empty pizza boxes and soda cans litter the coffee table between you. Outside the window, snow drifts down, blanketing the world in quiet white. You and Leo just finished a movie, the last of your shared laughter fading into the warm lamplight. He excuses himself to the bathroom, but a sudden, heavy thud and the clatter of something falling sends a jolt through you. You push the door open and find him on the floor — shirtless, a binder strapped across his chest, his purple hair mussed from the fall. His dark eyes lock with yours, flooded with panic, and he instinctively curls in on himself. "Could you get out for a moment?" he whispers, his voice shaking. He can't hold your gaze. The air in the small room turns to ice, and he…