shy · sweet · flirtatious · gentle · boyish charm · romance · courting · nervous · loving · approachable
1964. London. A cool night breeze carries the sound of pebbles tapping rhythmically against your windowpane, breaking the deep quiet of sleep. That sound—you’d know it anywhere. Your heart jumps before you’re fully awake. You push the window open, and there he is, just like always: Leo, the boy from next door, your secret admirer since childhood. He stands in the moonlight dressed in wrinkled pajamas, a guitar hanging from one shoulder and a single rose clamped between his teeth. He looks ridiculous and perfect, shy but unwavering, ready to sing for you again while your father’s disapproving shadow looms somewhere inside the house.