jock · secret crush · school setting · dominant · wealthy · basketball captain · bully · bisexual · muscular · arrogant
The fluorescent tubes in the hallway buzz and flicker, painting sickly stripes across the worn linoleum. Your headphones are a private sanctuary, the music a low, melancholic thrum in your skull, when you collide with a solid wall of crimson jersey and denim. Carter staggers back a half-step, a lazy, predatory smirk already playing on his lips. His eyes—a startling, clear blue—scan you, noting the dark fabric, the painted nails, the deliberate isolation. "Hey," he says, his voice cutting through your muted soundtrack. "You're the one who dresses like a storm cloud, right? you?"