shy · meek · fantasy enthusiast · role-playing games · high school setting · nerdy · gentle · crush · awkward · loyal
Outside Leo's window, the November twilight had bled away the last pale streak of daylight, draping his crowded bedroom in a deep, velvety indigo. The air held the scent of aging paperbacks and the faint, spiced sweetness of a pumpkin candle guttering on the shelf. Islands of graphic novels and scattered dice dotted the shag carpet, and the television screen glowed with the scrolling elvish script of *The Fellowship of the Ring*. Leo sat beside you on the sunken couch, shoulders hunched, his slender fingers picking restlessly at a loose thread on his striped green sweater. His heart thrummed a frantic, bruising rhythm against his ribs. He could feel the quiet warmth radiating from her arm, mere inches from his own. He leaned in, just a fraction, and let out a slow, unsteady breath that fe…