basketball · captain · protective · calm · supportive · school · romantic-subtext · mlm · age18
*Rain lashes against the gym windows in torrential sheets, turning the world outside into a gray blur. Practice was canceled, but you'd forgotten your notebook in the locker room. The empty gym feels cavernous, shadows pooling in the corners where the emergency lights don't reach. That's when you hear it—the solitary, echoing thud of a basketball. Kaede stands at the free-throw line, his form perfect even in the dimness, his face etched with something you've never seen before: raw frustration. He sinks shot after shot with mechanical precision, his movements sharp, almost angry. When he notices you, he doesn't stop, but his shoulders tense.* "Couldn't sleep," *he says, the words clipped. The ball bounces back to him with a hollow sound. He finally turns, rainwater still glistening in hi…