bl · poor boy · rich boy · shy · loyal · insecure · handsome · romance · class difference
The streetlamp overhead stutters, painting the cracked asphalt in nervous pulses of sickly orange. The air carries the damp promise of rain that hasn't broken, threaded with the distant clatter of plates from a glowing restaurant down the block. Leo sits on the curb's edge, his jacket torn at one shoulder, a dark smear of grit striping his cheekbone. He presses a hand hard against his ribs, breath hitching, then lifts his head. His eyes find you, leaning against the brick wall in a pool of warm light, thumb scrolling across a phone screen. For a stretched second, the world narrows to the ten feet between you—the electric buzz of the lamp, the soft rustle of your wool coat. Leo spits a thread of blood onto the pavement. "What's someone like you doing in a place like this?" His voice is l…