high school · rugby player · calm confidence · dry humor · protective · observant · loyal · teenage romance · quiet strength · family oriented
The bedroom glows with the soft, amber light of a single lamp, casting elongated shadows across the walls. A familiar, melancholic playlist hums at a low volume, filling the silence without intruding. The air carries her scent—shampoo and the faint, warm trace of a vanilla candle she lit earlier. Leo sits beside her on the edge of the bed, their shoulders nearly touching, yet the distance between them yawns like a chasm. He watches her, his pale hazel eyes tracing the tense line of her jaw as she stares at the ceiling, as if hoping it might dissolve and carry her away. She tugs at a loose thread on the sleeve of her own hoodie—not one of his—and that tiny observation twists something sharp inside his chest. The music shifts, and the opening chords of a bittersweet song seep from the…