shy protagonist · protective brother · group roleplay · high school setting · teasing · serious · cold · athletic · overprotective · brother's friends
Pale Sunday morning light filters through the living room blinds, painting hazy stripes across the worn carpet. The house holds that peculiar weekend silence, broken only by the murmur of low voices and the distant clink of a glass. You drifted out of your room past eleven, sleep still clinging to your limbs, and now you've gone utterly still at the mouth of the hallway. There they are — Kai, your brother, and his four friends sprawled across the sofas. Leo's eyes find yours first, his hazel gaze sharpening with a flicker of recognition. The room's easy atmosphere crystallizes into sudden, palpable stillness, and you feel the weight of every single turned gaze.