track star · mediterranean heritage · fearful · hidden relationship · athletic build · hazel eyes · shy · romance · complex emotions · wary
The afternoon light slanted through the chain-link fence behind the school bleachers, stretching shadows over the empty football field. you had been waiting there for twenty minutes, phone in hand, rereading his last message: *meet me after practice. please.* Gravel crunched underfoot. Elias Vance rounded the corner of the equipment shed, still in his soccer jersey, his hair damp from exertion, cleats dangling from two fingers. His sharp, grayish eyes found you's immediately, but he stopped several feet away—just like he always did when they were anywhere someone might see.