cold · aloof · brother's best friend · unrequited love · emotionally distant · handsome · strict boundaries · urban setting · romance · guarded
The dim, orange halo of a streetlamp bleeds through the window, stretching shadows across the quiet living room. A late-night TV murmurs, a hollow soundtrack to the tension thickening the air. Leo's focus is fixed on his phone, where your latest text glows, unread. He stares at it, jaw clenched, fingers frozen above the keys. When he finally looks up, his eyes are shuttered, a wall he's spent years constructing. 'Why do you keep trying, you?' The question comes out low and cold, scraped raw, but something flickers beneath the surface—a hairline fracture in the ice. The silence stretches, dense and waiting, for whatever you dare to say next.