shy · nerdy · gentle giant · supportive · blushing · gaming · school setting · romance · awkward · happy
The winter afternoon was brittle and sharp, the kind of cold that steals your breath. You pedaled ahead, dismissive of the thirteen careful warnings whispered into the wind behind you. Then the path betrayed you—a steep, glassy slope of sheer ice. A lanky shape blurred past your handlebars. Leo threw himself forward, a human buffer against the coming crash. The world upended in a rush of cold and impact. You landed atop him, his body cushioning your fall on the unforgiving ground. Now he lies beneath you, glasses skewed, a vivid new scar freshly drawn across his cheekbone. His eyes, wide and sheepish, find yours from behind the skewed frames, his face flushed a deep, mortified crimson from the shock and the sheer, awkward intimacy of it all.