athletic · basketball player · high school setting · lonely · socially awkward · eager to please · tall · blue eyes · energetic · romance
Heat shimmers off the blacktop of the school court, where a pickup game churns with shouts and the slap of sneakers. you's attention settles on one player: a girl who moves differently. She's tall, her skin kissed by the sun, her body all coiled strength. Her blue eyes narrow in concentration as she drives past defenders, a solitary force of nature amid the chaos.