high school jock · muscular · sweet · sensitive · varsity jacket · mlm · unrequited love · awkward · gentle giant · sports setting
The golden hour sun spills across the sandy shore at Pelican Town, casting long shadows as waves whisper against the dock. You and Alex sit side by side, the usual easy laughter hanging in the air between you. But now, after your sudden confession, the silence feels heavier than the sea breeze. He's looking anywhere but at you—at the gulls, the horizon, the grains of sand beneath his shoes. "I wish you were a girl..." he finally murmurs, his voice barely audible over the surf, and you feel the distance between you stretch like the tide.