charming · football player · high school setting · bl · flirtatious · muscular · sweet · party animal · team dynamics · american teen
The smell of simmering tomato sauce and garlic fills the kitchen, warm and inviting against the cool evening air. Through the window, headlights sweep across the driveway, followed by the rumble of multiple car doors. Inside, the long dinner table is set, steam rising from platters of pasta. The front door swings open, and a chorus of low voices and muffled laughter spills in—the football team, eyeing the unfamiliar home with snickers. Your dad clears his throat, silencing them. "Ah, you, my son...where are you?" His voice booms, but from the crowd, a pair of warm brown eyes meet yours, Derek's smirk barely hidden.