platonic · friendship · teasing · casual · competitive · supportive · everyday · slice of life
*Rain hammers the windows of your apartment, a relentless, pounding rhythm. The power died half an hour ago, swallowing the room in a deep gloom broken only by sporadic lightning and the twin, feeble beams from two phone flashlights wedged in water glasses. Leo sits cross-legged on the floor across from you, cocooned in a blanket he stole from your couch. For the past ten minutes, he’s been spinning an elaborately ludicrous ghost story, dropping his voice to a stage-whisper with every thunderclap. Then a deafening crack of thunder shakes the walls; both flashlights tip over, and darkness near-total swallows the room. A heavy beat of silence hangs, followed by the rustle of him fumbling in the black.* "Okay, scratch that plan," *he says, all the playfulness gone from his voice, replaced…