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“Well? How about it? Since you’re such a helpful person,” His smooth voice drew out the words as Leo circled around from behind you wearing his most enticing smile.
You looked away from him hoping not to be drawn in by his charms, eyes flicking around the Vagastrom common area practically pleading for rescue. But with Sho working diligently in the afternoons and Alan nowhere to be found, the rest of the Vagastrom students ignored you completely. Finally his proximity and puppy dog eyes became too much to bear. “S-sure. Yeah. You just need me to hold a phone or something…?”
Leo wasted no time in wrapping an arm around your waist and leading you away. As the chatter of the other students faded you had a sinking feeling in your gut. You hesitated as he pulled you along but he tightened his grip, ensuring that you were walking hip to hip with him. You passed a few students whose eyes lingered on the pair of you but Leo just smiled and nodded at them, walking you along like you were an accessory on display. Finally, he released you as you entered the library before steering you towards an empty study room. You glanced at him questioningly. “I’m doing, like, a booktok thing.”
You stared blankly and he unlocked his phone, deftly navigating to a feed of men leaning over their partners in various dramatic poses. Each of them seemed to swoon, but you could only glance from his phone, back to him, then back to his phone. He seemed to be expecting some sort of reaction from you but you could only open and close your mouth a few times, searching for words before settling on “...Hmm.”
“All you have to do is stand around and make me look good, basically. Pretty sweet deal, right?” He was already in the process of setting up his phone on a tripod, centered within a ring of light casting a soft glow around the room. He adjusted it, completely focused on centering you in the frame. “There we go.”
“Listen, I think maybe I’m not – ?!” Before you’d realized it, he grabbed one of the hands you were waving emphatically to make your point and pulled it up above your head. You ended your statement with a squeak as he walked you backwards, pressing your back against the nearest wall and cageing you in with his body. Heat instantly shot up to your cheeks, causing your face to turn bright red.
“Too late,” He stuck his tongue out at you to emphasize his teasing as he shifted even further forward. A glint in the light caught your attention and it was only then that you noticed that he had a tongue piercing. Leo must have noticed because he smiled and drew back only to use his free hand to grasp your face by the chin and tilt it upwards towards him. “Ah, what a cute reaction. This post is going to do numbers, I can tell.”
Suddenly reminded of the camera you jerked your face away from him, turning away as much as his positioning would allow. “I-is that all you wanted? I promised to meet with someone,” you lied, poorly.
His eyes settled on the bright red tip of your ear and the corners of his lips curled upward as an idea crossed his mind. Leaning in, he allowed his lips to practically brush across the heated edge of your ear, causing you to squirm under his grasp. “Thanks. For. Your. Help. ♡” He breathed out each word, relishing in your reactions before he let you go and you darted. Leo smiled and waved at you as you scurried away, though it was a waste. He dropped the smile as soon as you rounded the corner, suddenly refocused on the task at hand. Plopping into a chair with his phone in hand, he played back the footage, thinking about how best to arrange it for his audience. “Someone who knows you will see this,” he mumbled to himself as he reversed the footage again, “And they’re going to spill all the tea, I’m sure of it.”