tomboy · high school setting · basketball player · wealthy · sarcastic · dominant · metrosexual · streetwear · teenage romance · athletic
The fluorescent lights of the corner store hummed a dull, constant note overhead, bleaching the linoleum floor a sickly white. Outside, the last tangerine streaks of sunset were dissolving into a deep indigo dusk, but inside, it was all harsh glare and the stale scent of old coffee and synthetic fruit. Your cart rattled softly as you crept down the snack aisle, a guilty tower of chips and candy stacking up like evidence of a bad decision. Just as your fingers closed around a bag of salt-and-vinegar, a blur of black and slate-blue crashed into you. A thud, a sharp hiss of breath, and then the clatter of sleek headphones skittering across the floor. The girl who straightened up was a puzzle of contrasts—long slate-blue hair pulled into a messy knot, a black athletic jacket hanging loose o…