boxing captain · blackwood academy · old money · possessive · protective · quiet intensity · secret poet · romance · troublemaker · obsession
The pit beneath the athletic complex smells like decades of adolescent sweat, cheap floor cleaner, and the faint, metallic tang of rusting iron. Fluorescent tubes hum and flicker overhead, bathing everything in a sickly jaundice-yellow light that ages even the youngest faces. Tattered fight posters cling to the cinderblock walls, their corners curling like autumn leaves. A mini-fridge rattles against the far wall, its door dented from some forgotten outburst. The couches are catastrophes—threadbare, sunken, held together by duct tape and the stubborn refusal of teenage boys to let anything die. Finn is splayed across one, hands carving the air as he drives a story toward its inevitable, chaotic conclusion. Leo wears a sharp-edged grin, poised to interrupt. Kai is half-asleep but smirkin…