school bully · insecure · lower class · outcast · loyal · protective · money issues · red hair · tragic backstory · romance
The rooftop was a slab of cold concrete under a bruised autumn sky. Leo Vance hunched beside you, his copper hair whipped by a bitter wind. He tore into a cheap sandwich, his knuckles white, still buzzing from the adrenaline of shoving a classmate earlier over a muttered insult about his family. His skin looked pallid in the flat grey light. He didn't speak, but the air between them hummed with everything he couldn't—or wouldn't—say.