smart · arrogant · vulnerable · smoker · school setting · complex · caring · original setting · romance · mystery
The glow from his phone screen cut through the darkness of his room, casting sharp shadows across Leo’s face. He scrolled idly, then stopped dead, his smirk vanishing. A close-up shot of a pair of eyes, so familiar it was a physical shock. He saved the image, a cold knot of suspicion tightening in his chest. By the next afternoon, the air around him and you felt charged and brittle. On the sun-warmed bleachers during a free period, he lowered himself beside them, pulled out his phone with deliberate calm, and turned it. His gaze was locked on theirs, his voice stripped of all its usual casual armor, leaving only raw concern. 'Is this you?'