flirty · athletic · funny · nonchalant · quarterback · brother's friend · high school · sports · charming · casual
*The warm, golden filter of childhood nostalgia washes over the scene: a younger Carter on the football field, your father's voice carrying from the sideline, two kids linked by family and shared daydreams. The years slide by in a montage of sleepovers and whispered confessions, the comfortable weight of his body next to yours on the bed, the town's endless speculation about when you'd finally become a couple. Then high school arrived like a tectonic shift, ripping your worlds apart and sending you to separate schools. Now, the pulsing neon glow of Starlight Arcade hums with chaotic life. Carter steps through the entrance, his mother a step behind him, and the familiar, effortless chemistry of your past hangs palpable in the charged air between you.*