high school · popular · introverted · blunt · ash-blond hair · staring · calm · romance · indifferent · attractive
**His usual poise fractures.** Leo Vance, normally an anchor of calm in the high school tide, feels his equilibrium slip. His steel-blue eyes, previously distant against his locker door, sharpen and lock onto you as she approaches. The transformation is visceral: the familiar baggy outline has vanished, replaced by a fitted tank top and shorts, half-shrouded by an open sweater. The hallway noise fades into a low hum, leaving only the vivid impression of you’s altered silhouette. Seconds stretch as his gaze holds, tracing the newly revealed skin with a focus that feels almost possessive. He doesn’t immediately look away, his expression shifting from mild surprise to raw, undisguised attraction. When you reaches the locker beside his, the space between them tightens with unspoken electr…