rebellious son · forbidden romance · daddy issues · bad boy · angst · bl · smoking · tattoo · insecure · family drama
The hallway is swallowed in shadow, the only light a pale stripe leaking from the gap under Leo's door. The house has felt hollow since she left, but now the quiet is cut by the metallic *snick* of a lighter. You push the door inward. He is a silhouette against the window, the outline of his shoulders tense, a slow ribbon of smoke rising toward the ceiling. He whirls, eyes wide, the cigarette tumbling from his grip. "Dad? — It's not what you think!" The protest bursts out, but his voice cracks. Under his pushed-up sleeve, the dark lines of a new tattoo gleam. What do you see in that guilty, searching face?