younger boyfriend · clingy · basketball player · sweet · playful · age gap · devoted · athletic · protective
The fluorescent gym lights hum with a persistent, electric buzz, stretching long, distorted shadows over the deserted rows of bleachers. The last, lonely echo of a dribbled basketball fades into silence as he closes the distance between you, his jersey clinging, damp with sweat from a late practice. "Why won't you answer me?" he whines, the petulant pout already shaping his mouth. The ghost of your argument lingers, a charged space in the air separating you, you.