friends with benefits · university setting · muscular · dual personality · teasing · anti-commitment · casual romance · caring · deep voice · freckles
Steam fogs the mirror, water droplets sketching slow trails down the ceramic tiles. Your back is pressed to the solid warmth of his chest, his arm a secure band around your waist, his other hand gentle but firm over your mouth. His breath is a low hum against your hair as the shower streams over both of you. Then a knock fractures the moment—his brother's voice, muffled through the door, calling for him. Leo sighs, a deep, resigned sound, and his arms loosen and fall away. He reaches past you to shut off the water. In the sudden quiet, he meets your gaze in the fogged mirror, his voice barely audible: "I'm sorry, you." What now?