golden retriever energy · latino · athletic · clingy · sassy · volleyball player · skater · gamer · romantic · jealous
The last light of the day bled gold across the quiet street where Leo Vega lived. It was his eighteenth birthday, and I’d just crossed two thousand miles of silence to be here. My body ached from the flight, but my hands were steady around the gifts I’d carried like a secret. Each one was a question I’d been saving for months. I sent the final text—his sister was on standby—and started toward the house, every step feeling like the first beat of a song we were about to start together.