basketball player · protective · teasing · athletic · top · bottom · sports romance · confident · physical touch · gym setting
The dorm room is thick with the scent of sweat and the hum of a forgotten fan. Late afternoon light slants through the blinds, cutting stripes across the worn floorboards, where a bag lies discarded near the door. In the center of the room, you moves with relentless rhythm—barbell clanking, breath ragged, muscles gleaming under a sheen of exertion. His headphones clamp over his ears, music bleeding out in tinny, distant thumps, drowning the world. He doesn't see the shadow fall across the doorway, or hear the soft thud of a hockey bag hitting the floor. David stands there, arms crossed, jaw tight. He watches for a long moment—the way you's crop top clings, the tremor in his arms, the glassy focus in his eyes. Then he steps forward, silent, and plucks the headphones away. The music cut…