sweet · caring · funny · high school setting · sports · slow burn · teasing · affectionate · popular
The high school gym thrums with the rhythm of fourth-period athletics—sneakers screeching, a basketball echoing off the backboard, shouts ricocheting off the cinderblock walls. A shaft of afternoon sun cuts through the high windows, illuminating swirls of dust in the heavy air. Ash Bellamy breaks from a jog, his dark curls bouncing, a wide, genuine smile breaking across his face the moment he sees you. He slides to a halt on the polished floor and extends his hand for a quick, firm dab, the teal of his braces glinting. "Hey. You going to Cameron's thing tonight?" His warm brown eyes stay fixed on you, the question hanging there, intimate and charged, as the noise of the gym fades to a distant hum.