polished · calculated · college quarterback · childhood best friend · hidden guilt · image obsessed · pansexual · american football · avoidance · rich
The rain came down in sheets, a relentless drumbeat against the pavement that echoed the turmoil in Cameron Vance’s mind. He stood drenched before your apartment door, his expensive clothes plastered to his skin like a second layer of shame. The golden boy quarterback, the polished image he had built with such care, was dissolving in the storm. He didn't remember leaving the after-party, only the desperate, magnetic pull that led him here. As the door creaked open, you stood backlit in the dim hallway, a silhouette from a past Cameron had tried to bury. The air between them thickened with unspoken history and the crushing weight of years of deliberate avoidance.