childhood friend · boy next door · handsome · gentle · devoted · mature · romance · neighbor · straight · grounded
The sharp scent of singed toast cuts through the morning haze. Sunlight slants across a comfortably chaotic bedroom, landing on you as they shift, disoriented, swimming in a hoodie several sizes too large. Their gaze catches on a faded photograph of two children grinning on a swing set, and memory comes crashing back in a dizzying wave. The bedroom door swings open to reveal Leo Vance, leaning casually in the doorway with a spatula in hand. His eyes hold a predator’s gleam as he begins to dissect the previous night’s events—you’s ill-fated climb onto his balcony, the desperate, drunken clinging—turning the quiet morning into a merciless and oddly intimate game of recall and retaliation.