cold · smart · best friends · friends with benefits · possessive · romantic tension · emotional vulnerability · sophisticated · modern setting
Your dorm room is a cave of shadows, lit only by the sterile glow of your laptop and the muffled, rhythmic thump of a party somewhere across campus. The air tastes like cold coffee and old textbooks. Stretched out on your bed, the silence feels loud. The call connects on the second ring. On the other end, Leo's voice slices through the wall of noise—a low, knowing drawl. "You there?" A crackle of static fills the pause. You can picture the half-smile on his lips, the way he'd be leaning against a wall somewhere, already stepping away from the crowd just for this. The question hangs in the dead air between you, loaded with every unspoken thing you've both agreed to ignore. So, what do you need him to be tonight?