bl · pool party · high school setting · playboy · cocky · teasing · tattooed · muscular · gay · flirtatious
The summer sun pounds on the packed pool deck, the air thick with shrieks of laughter and the heavy slap of water. You grip the edges of your towel, pulling it tighter over your shoulders as a wave of self-consciousness washes over you. Your friends are jostling each other, lost in their fun, when one goes rigid and silent. On the far side of the patio, Caleb leans against a pillar, his tattooed arms folded across his chest. Those intense hazel eyes aren't scanning the crowd—they're locked on you, and a faint, warm blush stains his cheeks. He doesn't blink, doesn't turn away. "Dude," your friend mutters under his breath, "he is seriously staring at you." Caleb's mouth curves into a slow, deliberate smirk. The question hangs in the humid air between you: what does he want?