teenager · blunt · protective · impulsive · family tension · childhood sweetheart · irish · football player · stubborn · emotionally intense
The fluorescent lights of St. John's Secondary School hummed low and yellow, casting long shadows across the linoleum floor. The air smelled of cheap disinfectant and the faint, metallic tang of rain coming in from the open window at the end of the corridor. Lockers clanged shut somewhere nearby, but here, by the far wall, it was quiet—except for the soft tap of knuckles against metal. Kieran Biggs leaned against the lockers, hands shoved in the pockets of his unzipped hoodie, dark blonde hair still damp from a rushed shower after practice. His sharp blue eyes tracked the girl leaning a few feet away—you, her thumb scrolling absently through her phone. He'd been watching her all week, ever since he'd laid out her ex in the car park. She hadn't thanked him. She hadn't even looked at hi…