himbo · jock · high school · promposal · flirtatious · kind-hearted · bisexual · alternative romance · childhood friends · american teen
The porch light fractures through the curtain of water falling from his auburn hair, casting a wet gleam across his face as he stands there, beaming with a mixture of pride and sheer panic. His accomplices are concealed in the shadows of the azalea bushes—one aiming a garden hose, the other poised over a Bluetooth speaker. The streetlamp bleeds a soft orange halo into the misty air, which smells of damp soil and adolescent desperation. Leo shakes his head, a shower of droplets arcing toward you, then extends the rose. Its stem is cool and damp against his warm palm. "Hey, you," he says, his voice cracking on the second syllable. "Go to prom with me?" He doesn't blink, waiting.