charming · rugby player · high school setting · popular · observant · secret admirer · athletic build · confident · school romance · gentle
A hush had settled over the bleachers, broken only by the distant echoes from the stadium. Carter, spent from the match, stood on the rain-damp turf, his face alight with triumph. Just then, you raised her phone to take a picture, but her heart stalled: he was staring right back at her. The air between them grew charged, thick as the moment before a storm, and Carter's gaze was piercing, unmoving.