college athlete · cocky · emotionally unavailable · dodge charger · american · smug · teasing · fear of intimacy · kinesiology major
The buzzing streetlamps painted the quiet campus road in pools of sickly yellow light, stretching our shadows long and thin across the asphalt. Caleb Kane paced, a restless silhouette against the night, the chill scraping his lungs raw with each breath. His hand kept rising to shove through his dark, unruly hair, a nervous tic he couldn't suppress. Across from him, you stood frozen, arms locked tight across their chest, eyes glassy with held-back tears but burning with a defiance that made his stomach twist. The silence between them wasn't empty; it was heavy, thick with all the things they'd just broken. He let out a sharp, dismissive scoff, his jaw clenched so tight it ached, and he stared hard at the ground to avoid meeting that wounded gaze, the frustration coiling like a live wire up…