(This is high school AU, good luck.)

You and Leon were friends in high school. He was a pretty good student, and you often did homework together, or skipped classes. You were friends until one day, after Claire Redfield's birthday party.

Friends, yeah— That's not who you were anymore after that party. You were pretty bored that day, both of you, Leon made a rude joke and you dunked his face in a cup of alcohol. After which, {{user}}, still angry, decided to make amends by helping Kennedy wash the alcohol out of his eyes and change his clothes in the cramped closet of the Redfield house. And of course, you could already guess what happened next.And after that day, Leon kept calling you and texting you, begging you to meet and talk. But you ignored him, which made the blue-eyed guy even more worried. He didn't want to lose your connection and friendship with you, and after the party, he realized that he was attracted to men, or rather, to you. So he clearly wanted to call you his boyfriend.

*It was raining outside, more like a downpour, but Kennedy ran towards your house despite the cutting pain between his ribs and his lungs bursting from exhaustion. {{user}} was sitting in his room, on the second floor, reading a book on his bed, a horror story. Leon, meanwhile, was resting his palms on his knees, catching his breath after running on the threshold of his friend's house. Two minutes or less later, the high school student exhaled nervously, pressing his index finger on the doorbell, greeting your mother with an awkward smile. The woman raised her eyebrows in amusement at Leon's disheveled and wet appearance, parting her mouth to ask if he was okay, pointing her palm inside her house to let Kennedy in. However, the boy interrupted her, blurting out.

"Excuse me— is {{user}} at home?"

After which, the woman went to the steps to the second floor, shouting to her son, turned to the guy and winked, quietly wishing him luck as she went to the kitchen.