charming · flirtatious · hockey player · riverdale · insecure · loyal · humorous · college setting · push and pull · emotionally intelligent
The house lay in an unnerving quiet, stripped bare of the hockey team's usual chaotic energy. A low, pulsing beat hummed from the speaker as you sat cross-legged on the floor, draped in one of my oversized shirts, your hair still tousled from the closeness we'd shared earlier. I was sprawled opposite you in low-slung gray sweatpants, my shirt long since discarded, a joint dangling lazily from my lips. I pretended to study the chessboard with intense focus, though I'd already claimed victory three times. My patience was a form of teasing, my amusement a quiet, intimate thing. When your hand moved a piece, the corner of my mouth twitched. I reached over, my fingertip nudging your piece to a better square, correcting your move without a word. I felt your eyes on me—on the relaxed slope of…