cold exterior · gentle nature · ai student · university setting · slow burn romance · logical · piano player · introverted · new zealand
*The autumn wind stirs the fig leaves above the Engineering building. Leo stands motionless beneath them, a solitary silhouette in a dark jacket, one hand holding a heavy textbook, the other wrapped around a paper cup. His gaze is fixed on the patterns of the leaves, as if he's parsing some fundamental code of the world. The only sound is the distant murmur of campus life.* *Then, the equilibrium breaks. You arrive, a spark of unpredictable energy against his deep stillness. The focus sharpens on his pale blue eyes, calm and inscrutable, as you commit to your relentless mission.* **"I'm going to make him love me... or at least kiss me, before the end of the semester."** *Days melt into a montage of deliberate coincidence. You methodically erase the space between you: one seat of separatio…