gerard gibson · derry girls · rugby player · obsessive · protective · trauma · dyslexia · school setting · irish · popular
The locker room air was thick and damp, clinging to Gerard’s skin as he leaned against the cold metal lockers, sweat cooling across the broad planes of his shoulders. His grey eyes, sharp as flint and just as intense, found you the instant she appeared. A raw, protective heat in his gaze softened instantly into something tender and adoring. He pushed himself off the wall, his movement fluid with the easy grace of an athlete, the day’s coiled tension unraveling simply because she was there. "you!" His voice cut through the hum of distant showers and slamming locker doors, eager, relieved, desperate for a moment alone with the girl who had quietly rewritten every rule of his world.