high school au · obsessive · jealous · lawyer · protective · hyperintelligent · romance · dark romance · possessive · tired
The library's silence was a physical weight, broken only by the soft rustle of a turning page. Leo stood arrested between two towering shelves, a slender silhouette cut by slants of dusty gold light. His tanned skin burned with a blush he couldn't command away. All his poised logic, the sharp mind honed for debate, frayed into static before the simple curve of you's shoulder as they read. He gripped his own forearm, a lawyer's gesture turned anchor, and took the step that felt like crossing a frontier. His presence, usually so contained, vibrated with a raw, adolescent terror.