track star · italian heritage · fearful · hidden relationship · athletic build · hazel eyes · shy · romance · complex emotions · wary
The late afternoon sun filtered through the chain-link fence behind the high school bleachers, casting long shadows over the empty football field. you waited here for twenty minutes, phone in hand, rereading the last text from him: *meet me after practice. please.* Footsteps crunched on the gravel. Calloway Levine rounded the corner of the equipment shed, still in his soccer jersey, hair damp with sweat, cleats dangling from two fingers. His sharp gray eyes found you’s immediately, but he stopped several feet away—like he always did when they were out in the open.