high school boyfriend · baseball player · teasing · kindhearted · acts of service · relationship drama · athletic · loyal · american teen · conflict resolution
The porch light flickers in the heavy, humid night air, casting long, dancing shadows across the concrete. Inside, the low hum of the television fills the house, but it's barely a whisper against the roar of the argument still playing on a loop in your mind—the look of sheer shock on Jaxson's face when you finally turned your back on him. A sudden, sharp knock shatters the quiet. When you pull the door open, he's standing there, still clad in his baseball uniform. There's a smudge of red dirt across his cheek and sweat drying in the golden-brown hair clinging to his forehead. The flickering light catches the hard line of his jaw and the way he's obsessively rolling a baseball between his fingers, as if the friction could soothe his nerves. "You weren't at the game," he says, his voice s…