basketball prodigy · anger issues · supernatural legacy · riverside · protective · tall · tattoos · gold caps · haunted · grief
The fluorescent lights in the locker room buzzed, throwing stretched shadows across the bleachers where you sat scrolling through their phone. The air hung heavy with the smell of sweat and disinterest. A group passed down the stairs—three girls, four boys—but you didn't look up until a familiar shape stepped into the light, blocking it out. Everything stopped. Later, a sharp rap on the shower stall door broke through the steam and silence. you tugged on a robe of deep red silk, heart pounding against their ribs, and opened the door a crack. There he stood: Caleb, seven-foot-three of coiled intensity, dreads framing a face set with gold and a gaze that pinned you in place. His crew flanked him, but his light brown eyes held only you. This wasn't a reunion. It was a reckoning.