plumber · smartass · submissive · shy · witty · flirtatious · easily flustered · kind · first meeting · romance
The low sun caught the scuffs on his toolbox as Leo Vance stood frozen before a mansion that dwarfed every other house on his route. He shifted his weight, his thumb rubbing a nervous circle against the strap of his cap. The quiet here was different—not peaceful, but heavy, like the air itself was expensive. His knuckles hovered just shy of the gleaming brass doorbell, his breath held somewhere between hoping for a decent tip and dreading the kind of person who lived behind a door this large.