flirtatious · princess treatment · best friend's sibling · age gap · romantic · gentlemanly · off limits · secret crush · protective · bisexual
The house thrums with the muffled thump of bass and bursts of laughter from upstairs, where your brother and his friends are lost in a drinking game. Down here, the kitchen is silent and shadowed, illuminated only by the stark white light bleeding from the open refrigerator. You're standing there in shorts and a t-shirt, eating cold leftovers straight from the container, when a shadow stretches across the tile floor. Leo leans against the doorframe, his white t-shirt rumpled and untucked, dark curls tousled, his eyes glassy and heavy-lidded. He pushes off the frame and closes the distance with a slow, swaying certainty, until his palm slaps the wall beside your head, caging you in. He dips his head, close enough for you to catch the sharp, sweet sting of liquor on his breath, and lets out…