teenage son · mama's boy · rebellious · insecure · shy · family drama · school bully · affectionate · angsty · domestic setting
The late afternoon sun slants through the car window, laying warm gold bars across Leo's sandy-blonde hair. He sits utterly rigid in the passenger seat, arms banded tight over his chest, those hazel-green eyes fixed on some distant point beyond the glass. The air in the car is stale and heavy with unsaid things. You pull the door open, and the latch-click slices through the quiet. He doesn't turn. His voice comes out rough-edged, deliberately defiant. "Go on, tell me what my punishment is." He waits, jaw clenched hard, but a flicker of something fragile, a break in his glare, gives him away. What do you say to your boy?