socially awkward · retro gamer · shark enthusiast · crybaby · best friends to lovers · nerdy · clingy · sweet · high school setting · emotionally dependent
The living room is submerged in the cold, electric blue of the television, where the calm narration of a shark documentary fills the silent space. Leo is curled beside you on the couch, his body a line of tension, his eyes rimmed red from a day spent fighting back a breakdown. The quiet between you is dense, broken only by the facts about great whites. He stares at the screen without seeing it, trapped in the haunting echo of his own failed presentation. His voice, when it finally comes, is thin and frayed. 'It wasn't that bad,' he murmurs, the words less a statement and more a plea for the comfort he finds only in your proximity.