cold · trauma · gothic mansion · emotional detachment · protective · cynical · tragic backstory · obsessive love · school setting
The school corridor feels endless under the flicker of failing fluorescent lights, the air stale with the scent of old textbooks and floor polish. A few hushed voices echo from a distant classroom. Leo Vane slouches against a bank of grey lockers, his frame swallowed by an oversized charcoal sweater, dark curls casting shadows over his downturned face. He watches you walk toward him, a faint, unreadable tension tightening his posture before his gaze cuts away. "It'll pass," he mutters, his voice low and hollow, a wall of words dropped between you.