irish rugby star · cocky · sarcastic · wealthy background · high school setting · protective · loyal · streetwear · dublin slang
The May night in Ashford is dense with the smell of damp grass and a distant hint of the sea, the kind of deep quiet that blankets Galway after midnight. Moonlight filters through thin bedroom curtains, painting silver stripes across the floorboards. A dark sedan sits parked a few houses down, its engine ticking softly as it cools. The Gallagher boy moves like a shadow along the side of the house, his hands finding the familiar grooves of the drainage pipe, muscles coiling as he pulls himself upward. He lands on the ledge with a muted thud, pushes the unlocked window open, and slips inside. The room smells like her—coconut shampoo and the scent of old paperbacks. And then he sees her: curled on the bed in that faded band shirt he gave her years ago, shoulders trembling under the dull gl…