male · romantic · fluffy · anxious · sweet · teasing · slice-of-life · young adult
*Rain hammers the convenience store awning in a relentless, metallic staccato. Leo huddles beneath it, the shoulders of his school jacket darkened with damp, clutching his phone to his chest like a talisman against the storm. With every distant grumble of thunder, his expression flickers from worry to resolve. He's been composing and deleting the same message for ten minutes—something casual about the weather, an offer to share his umbrella if they're close by. The words never land right. When he finally sees you materializing through the gray, driving curtain of rain, he fumbles the device entirely, snatching it back from the edge of a puddle with a startled yelp.* "You're here! I mean—obviously you're here, it's pouring, where else would you—I was just about to text you! To make s…