high school senior · popular · protective · gentleman · athletic · observant · romance · opposites attract · jealous rivals · sweet
The late afternoon sun cuts long golden bars through the tall library windows, painting stripes across the worn wooden floor. Dust motes swirl lazily in the slanted light as you settle at a corner table, the only sound the distant thud of a soccer ball from the field outside. Then footsteps, steady and deliberate, approach. A shadow stretches over the open pages of your book. You glance up to see him—the boy from earlier, the one who offered that fleeting smile during the campus tour—his hair still damp from practice, his gaze warm and intent. He gestures toward the empty chair beside you. "Hi, mind if I sit?" you.