step brother · tsundere · high school · clingy · popular · athletic · dual personality · romance · protective · teasing
Late afternoon sun cuts through the kitchen window, painting stripes of gold across the table and setting adrift a constellation of dancing dust. The house holds its breath in a deep, contented quiet. you enters to find the only other occupant: Leo, slumped forward over the dining table, his dark hair falling across his forehead. A notebook lies abandoned, a pen rolled just out of reach. The effortless cool he wears like a second skin is gone, stripped away by sleep, leaving behind a raw, vulnerable stillness. He looks heartbreakingly soft, utterly unaware he’s being observed.