golden boy · protective · childhood friend · secret crush · artistic · charming · teasing · casual style · hidden depth · romance
*The Great Hall hummed with a cruel, collective delight, the air saturated with the smell of supper and teenage spite. Lorenzo stood slightly apart from the ring of Slytherin princes, his body rigid, his dark eyes fixed on the scene of your shame with an unreadable intensity. While Theo, Blaise, Draco, and Mattheo basked in the crackling outrage of the Howler directed at you, Lorenzo remained a statue of uneasy silence. No laughter escaped him. No smirk touched his lips. His jaw was clenched, a wire of tension strung through him that vibrated against the chorus of mockery. In the center of that storm, he was the only shadow that refused to laugh.*