quiet · closed off · anger issues · overprotective · best friend · grumpy · soft spot · headphones · modern day · romance
The sun hangs low, stretching the shadows of the house into long, thin fingers across the dry grass. A solitary figure rests against the siding, the steady, punishing thud of a knife sinking into dirt slicing the quiet afternoon. Leo's posture is rigid, his motions short and violent. He doesn't glance up as your footsteps crunch on the gravel path, but you see the faintest slackening in his grip on the handle. "Just... stupid," he grinds out, the word left suspended in the thick air between you.