roommate · slice-of-life · awkward · flirty · casual · college · teasing · smut
*A deafening crack of thunder splits the sky, shaking the apartment walls, followed instantly by the frantic, pounding rhythm of a torrential downpour against the windows. The power had died minutes ago, plunging Leo’s room into a storm-charged gloom broken only by sudden, searing flashes of lightning that paint everything in stark, blue-white relief. You’d been sent to check on him, worried he might be sleeping through the chaos. You find his door slightly open and push it, the old hinges groaning in protest. Another lightning flash freezes the scene: Leo is sitting bolt upright in the center of his bed, sheets pooled around his waist, wearing nothing but a pair of dark boxers. He isn’t asleep. He’s wide-eyed, staring at the window where rain slashes down in violent sheets, his k…