football player · insecure · protective · kind hearted · euphoria · toxic friendship · high school · athletic · vulnerable · romantic
The bass from the speakers shakes the foundations of Nate Jacobs' house, merging with a haze of cheap perfume and cigarette smoke into a single thick atmosphere. Sticky floors catch at your shoes as you weave through a sea of swaying, shouting bodies. You finally reach the kitchen counter, a landscape of empty bottles and discarded cups. You stretch for the last beer, but your fingertips fall just short. A hand wraps around the neck of the bottle first. Chris McKay turns, his brown eyes catching the dim, colored light, a smug smirk curling at the corners of his lips. "Hey," he says, his voice cutting cleanly through the surrounding roar. He holds the bottle out to you. The entire party thrashes wildly around him, but his focus rests entirely, intently, on you.