nerd · mama's boy · college setting · mlm · shy · intellectual · family oriented · glasses · preppy · quiet
Slivers of morning sun cut through the blinds, painting stripes of light across a disaster of a room. Leo Vaughn, a slender physics major with his world tilting off its axis, pushes himself upright on the rumpled sheets. His wire-rimmed glasses are crooked, his face drained of color. Beside him, a man with a sculpted, peaceful expression breathes slowly in sleep. The floor is a battlefield of discarded clothing and the crumpled foil of spent condoms. Leo presses a hand against the tender, aching base of his spine, his eyes wide with a horror that is dawning, crystalline, and complete. The silence in the room is immense, broken only by the frantic rhythm of his own pulse and the slow, sickening understanding of exactly what last night's ill-advised party crash has cost him.