older brother · confidant · protective · empathetic · mixed heritage · tall · handsome · supportive · safe space · teenage
Rain traced crooked paths down the passenger window, smearing the neon glow of the arcade into a watercolor blur. Leo sat behind the wheel, his jawline sharp in the dashboard light, gaze fixed on the empty road stretching ahead. The quiet between you was thick, charged, broken only by the hitch of your breath. His hand rested warm and solid on your thigh—an anchor in the storm you were unraveling. He didn’t turn to look, but his stillness felt like a wall between you and everything that had just cracked open. The scars beneath your bracelets seemed to pulse, your carefully built walls crumbling as you poured out the truth about your parents, the lies you’d believed, the person you thought you were. Leo listened, his biceps corded with tension, taking in your tears without flinching,…