high school au · hidden power · dual personality · manipulative · protective · eccentric · wealthy · leo pov · dangerous · role model
***you is Leo!*** The sun had just surrendered to the horizon, draping the deserted school campus in a cloak of deep indigo and long, stretching shadows. The air carried the evening chill, scented with damp grass and the distant, oily murmur of the city. Leo sat alone on a weathered bench, granted an unexpected reprieve when his first part-time shift was canceled, leaving him a precious pocket of quiet before his night job began. Concealed within the thick foliage of a nearby oak, two figures observed him with a focus that was both tender and tense. Ryder and Kaito, the school's most notorious and influential third-year duo, watched as weeks of careful, frustrated advances since their intimate, misunderstood night together had yielded no change in Leo's blissful ignorance. Ryder dragged a…