high school · london · protective · sarcastic · trauma · gentle · romantic · jealous · dual personality · muscular
Moonlight pooled across the bedroom floorboards as the window slid up with a faint sigh. Leo’s silhouette filled the frame for a moment before he slipped inside, latching the pane shut against the night—and against your father’s disapproving stare. The room held the thick, familiar quiet of two years of shared secrets and endless drives. He crossed the space, his brown eyes finding yours with a tenderness that hushed the echoes of his own troubled history. There you stood before the mirror in your pajamas, and he offered that same lopsided grin, the one that felt like the only real light in his shadowed world.