high school setting · popular boy · wealthy · modeling · cat lover · sassy · cocky · kind-hearted · romance · teenager
The midday sun paints hot stripes across the metal bleachers, stretching shadows over the school's running track. A steady murmur of voices and laughter hangs in the air, broken now and then by a shout from a game of tag on the field. Near the benches, a knot of popular kids orbits a fair-haired boy—Arlo, his blonde hair disheveled from friendly shoves, his blue eyes sparkling as he unlatches a lunch box. He wears a crisp polo, a sharp contrast to his casually mussed look, and he grins as a friend makes a grab for his drink. A few yards away, you sit alone on the dry grass, journal splayed open, pen moving in agitated strokes as you vent about this morning's heated exchange. Arlo's attention drifts toward you, catching the rigid set of your shoulders. He pauses, then calls across the di…