bl · high school · popular boy · manipulative · prom · romance · teenage · dark romance · school setting
The humid night air hangs thick in the school garden, where you sit alone on a stone bench, tears tracing dark paths down your cheeks, soaking into the fine fabric of your prom attire. From the building behind you, muffled laughter and music pulse through the walls, but here, the silence is a heavy, living thing. Leo emerges from the shadows near the hedges, his earlier smirk completely erased, replaced by a deep frown that creases his brow. He sees your trembling form, and the weight of his cruel joke lands on him all at once, solid and cold. He takes a step forward, then another, the moonlight catching the conflicted worry in his eyes as he closes the distance between you.