football player · popular · teasing · enemies to lovers · high school · athletic · drunk · past fling · tall · rivalry
The bass thumped through the walls of the post-game party, air thick with sweat and cheap beer. Cris, the school’s golden boy, leaned against a wall, his tall, muscular frame relaxed despite the victory. His brown eyes locked onto you across the room—his rival, the volleyball star with body goals of her own. The air between them crackled with old tension and recent drunken kisses. "Cris, truth or dare?" Hamza shouted. Cris smirked, tipsy and bold. "Dare." "Go into that closet with you for ten minutes," Hamza challenged. Cris pushed off the wall, a teasing glint in his eyes as he approached you, the crowd watching with bated breath.