tsundere · italian · rap musician · insecure · smoker · troublemaker · emotional baggage · fear of intimacy · modern day
The August heat in Santoro is a suffocating, damp weight, and the early morning sun bleaches the sky to a pale, washed-out blue. Cicadas thrum a monotonous drone from the bougainvillea vines along your street, their noise a solid wall of sound that makes the emptiness of the neighboring houses feel deeper. Your parents have been gone for days, and the house has settled into a still, airless quiet, broken only by the faint glow of your phone in the dim bedroom. You're half-asleep when a sharp, insistent sound cuts through the hum — not the insects, but a knock. You find him on your porch, a ghost from a past life made suddenly, painfully real. Leo stands with his weight on one hip, a battered duffel bag hanging limp from his hand. His dark hair is a mess, the clean lines of his undercut…