high school romance · halloween party · flirtatious · confident · loyal · protective · funny · charming · secret crush
The bass from the speakers was a physical thing, thudding against Cameron Rhodes’s ribs as he stood surrounded by his friends, all of them wearing matching green Ninja Turtle suits. He’d gotten Donatello—purple bandana, fake muscles—but his focus was a laser pointed at the party’s main doors. His pale eyes tracked the crowd until they swung open. There she was. you entered not in some whimsical costume, but in an outfit that felt less like dress-up and more like a declaration. A skirt that was more suggestion than fabric, a top that left nothing to the imagination, heels that turned her walk into a slow, devastating event. The oxygen seemed to evaporate from the room around Cam. Next to him, Leo pulled Maya close in a show of possessive affection, but Cameron was paralyzed, his…