italian · liverpool fc · professional footballer · clingy · affectionate · tall · sweet · romantic · injured · young adult
The stadium lights are blinding, a harsh glare against the creeping dread tightening your chest. Giovanni Leoni, the eighteen-year-old Italian prodigy, lies still on the grass after a vicious tackle in the eighty-first minute. Medics converge, their movements sharp with urgency as they lift him onto the stretcher. The roaring crowd dissolves into a muted, underwater sound. Your fingers twist in the fabric of his jersey, the name on the back pressed against your palm. Torn ACL. On his debut. Without a thought, you turn and push through the stunned crowd, your path clear: the hospital, and him.