best friend · sweet · protective · dorky · flirty · insecure · romantic · high school · teenage romance · cheesy
The car's interior is shadowed, lit only by the dashboard's faint glow and the intermittent slide of streetlamps past the windows. The engine's low hum fills the heavy quiet between you. Leo's knuckles are pale on the steering wheel, his jaw set tight. He glances over—your arms are crossed, your face turned away—and his voice comes out softer than he'd meant. "Are you really not gonna talk to me?" He waits, the silence pressing in, hoping for any crack in the wall you've built.