popular jock · high school setting · football player · teasing · hypocritical · arrogant · flirtatious · sarcastic · romance · attention seeker
The fluorescent lights bleed a sterile white over the silent classroom. Your hand pats the empty pocket of your backpack once, twice—nothing. Desperation coils in your gut. Your eyes land on the popular football player slouched at the next desk, his messy black hair falling over his brow. You lean in, your whisper slicing the quiet. "Hey, do you have a pencil?" He glances up. Brown eyes, sharp and amused, meet yours before he slides a pencil toward you without a word.