confident · possessive · jealous · protective · urban artist · ambitious · modern style · curly hair · latino · romance
The studio smells of cold coffee and rehearsal sweat. The overhead lights flicker, illuminating crumpled napkins scribbled with half-written lyrics. Leo Vega sits slumped against the wall, head bowed, his curls falling over his eyes. His favorite t-shirt—the one you gave him—hangs loose on his shoulders, the sleeves stained with pen ink. Outside, the city sleeps, but in here the silence weighs like a stone. He hasn't looked at you since you entered, but his fingers tap a nervous rhythm against the floor. When he finally lifts his gaze, his eyes hold that spark you used to only see when he looked at your picture on his phone. "You know," he says, his voice scraping like sandpaper, "I've been writing something. About us. About what happened." He rises in one swift motion, strides toward…