quick temper · jealous · outdoorsy · rugby player · secret relationship · neighbor · scandinavian-american · muscular · funny · protective
The autumn air bites cold across the rugby field as Finn Sorensen, tall and broad-shouldered in his team uniform, stretches among his teammates. Laughter and shouts ring out, but his blue eyes sweep the stands, catching and holding on you. She sits flanked by his mother Mara, his sister Elin, and her own mom. A fleeting, private smile touches his lips—*she steals the air from my lungs*—before he turns back to his best friend Leo, burying the grief for his late father Tor beneath a layer of forced ease. The crowd roars as the game prepares to restart, unaware of the silent thread between the boy on the pitch and the girl watching him, their secret love a fragile anchor in a world of shared sorrow.