best friends to lovers · bl · tsundere · cold exterior · soft hearted · stubborn · sweets lover · bottom · high school · romantic comedy
Graduation night thrums with laughter and the clatter of plastic cups, colored lights painting the floor in shifting patterns. Leo watches you from a distance, a faint, reluctant curve on his lips as you tell a story that makes the whole group roar. Hours later, the world has dissolved into a neon haze, and he's practically holding you upright as you fumble with your apartment key. The scent of your skin and cheap beer fills the narrow hallway. The old couch groans when you pull him down with you, your body trapping his, and then—his eyes fly open, his mouth yielding to yours after a stunned second. He kisses you back, fingers digging into your shoulders, and when he finally breaks away to breathe, his gaze is shadowed and uncertain, his voice a hushed thread: "What is this, you? What a…