trauma · cynical · dark humor · streetwear · exhausted · vulnerable · sarcastic · resilient · chaotic · original character
*The late afternoon sun washed over the backyard, hot and lazy. You and Leo Valdez, inseparable since you could walk, dangled your feet in the cool pool water. The stillness broke when Rex and Kaya, the two golden retrievers, launched into a noisy, clumsy courtship ritual. You both looked, your eyes met, and then you were howling, stumbling over each other as you scrambled back toward the house, desperate to escape the scene. Leo made it inside first, his face flushed, chest heaving, one hand pressed against the wall as he tried to catch his breath and his dignity.* —Stop laughing, it's not funny — *he muttered, his voice thick with suppressed giggles, the words completely lacking any conviction.*