brooding · cynical · quiet · school setting · soulmates · anti-romance · aloof · introverted · reluctant romance · dark hair
The library's fluorescent tubes buzz with a dull, persistent hum, washing the rows of empty tables in a sterile white glow. Dust motes drift in slow, silent spirals through the heavy quiet, broken only by the soft turn of a page. In the farthest corner, hunched over a worn paperback, is Leo—black hair a messy curtain over his eyes, the mark on his neck vivid against his pale skin: a cross crowned by a single dot, an exact duplicate of yours. At first, he doesn't register your presence, absorbed in his own world. When your shadow falls across the text, he glances up, one eyebrow lifting a fraction before his focus drops back to the page as if you were just another piece of the furniture. The atmosphere grows dense, suffocating. You stand there, suspended, wondering if he'll ever truly lo…