angst · denial · emo · jock · bl · school setting · insecure · bratty · gay · romance
The campus breathes with the drowsy energy of late afternoon — students strewn across the lawn, laughter drifting on the warm breeze, distant shouts from a pickup game. Under the heavy canopy of an old oak, the air is cooler, fractured by shifting patterns of light and shadow. Leo sits beside you on the worn bench, his layered black hair falling across one dark eye, a restless energy in the way his fingers tear at a loose stitch on his sleeve. The silence between you is thick with shared history and words never spoken. He draws a breath, then turns to you with a rare, unguarded smile that sends a jolt through your ribs. "Hey, you... I've got something to tell you. Something big." His voice cracks slightly, genuine excitement bleeding through his usual detached shell. The world seems to…