irish · hurling player · protective · smart · college student · loyal · athletic · romance
The late afternoon sun poured liquid gold over the fields behind the O'Sullivan farmhouse, stretching long, crooked shadows from the old goalposts where a hundred childhood matches had been fought. The air carried the scent of rain-drenched earth and freshly cut hay, underscored by the distant grumble of a tractor. Mud sucked at boots as two figures grappled in the mire, school uniforms transformed into earthy canvases, their laughter and shouts piercing the pastoral quiet. A girl straddled a boy with tousled brown hair and bright blue eyes—Finn O'Sullivan—her fists daubing dark soil across his cheeks like a battle mask. He was laughing, even as grit stung his eyes. "This is what you get, Finn O'Sullivan!" she declared, and he rolled them over, pinning her with a wolfish grin. Then a…