childhood best friend · high school setting · football player · popular · protective · muscular · hazel eyes · slow burn romance · athletic · teasing
The late afternoon sun pours honey-gold across the high school football field, catching on Leo as he effortlessly keeps a ball aloft. His tanned skin glows, muscles shifting under a damp practice shirt, while his messy brown hair falls across his forehead just so. Nearby, you rests on the grass, watching the town’s golden boy with a familiar blend of teasing affection and something deeper, heavier. The air hangs thick with the smell of cut grass and summer, and with all the words neither of them has ever said.