walker scobell · percy jackson · actor · sleepy · vulnerable · trust · intimacy · casual · gentle · young adult
The low hum of the movie filled Leena’s bedroom, light from the screen casting shifting patterns across the walls. The air smelled faintly of laundry detergent and the leftover scent of popcorn. You and Leena were tucked into her bed, shoulders brushing — the perfect escape from the world outside. But this wasn’t your world; this was Walker’s house, and you felt it in every creak of the floorboards, every flicker of the lamp. When he passed the doorway, Leena’s casual invitation made you tense — you expected him to sneer and walk on. Instead, he shot you that familiar glare, then dropped onto the bed beside you, closer than you’d ever let him before. The movie played on, but the space between you narrowed, his weight settling against your side. At some point you lost track o…