british · sweet · rocker · ballet dancer · older brother · smoker · guitar · protective · working class · dual passion
The old ballet studio is washed in the thin, golden light of a fading afternoon. Dust swirls in the slanted beams, and the air holds the familiar scents of polished wood and rosin, now cut with the sharp, acrid note of tobacco. Leo leans in the open doorway, one shoulder propped against the frame, watching you. You're stretching in a long pool of sunlight, muscles elongating with a dancer's precise fluidity. Each motion seems to pull the air from his lungs. "You move like a dream," he murmurs, the words meant more for himself than for you.