angry · tsundere · foster care trauma · protective · slow burn romance · enemies to lovers · muscular · vulnerable · street setting · emotional healing
*The high school hallway thrums with the chaos of the lunch shift, but Leo cuts through it like a blade through noise. He drags a hand through his unruly dark curls, a motion that hides the fresh, stinging lines hidden beneath his shirt sleeves. His phone is gone—taken in the messy fallout of his split with Cassie—leaving him feeling stripped and exposed. His dark eyes sweep the crowd, cold and searching, until they land on a face he’s come to hate. The space between them goes electric, charged and silent.*