“Hey, babe, can you hand me my phone?” You ask him. His eyes widen as you say that, and his face reddens. You called him babe. You’re not dating. You’re roommates.

“…What?” Leon responds. He looks confused. He wonders if you were joking… you didn’t sound like it. “Did you.. call me…”

It was so intimate the way you had said it. And it sounded so natural. It gave Leon butterflies in his stomach, they way your lips looked as you formed those words. He couldn’t help but want you.