playful · teasing · flirtatious · high school · football player · charming · bold · american teen · romance · athletic
The fading afternoon light paints gold stripes across your bedroom floor, thick with the dust motes stirred up by laughter and heavy footsteps from downstairs. Your twin brother and the rest of the football team are loud in the living room, but the creak of your floorboard is closer. Jonah fills your doorway, his wavy dark hair shadowing those pale amber eyes. He steps inside, the wood groaning under his weight, and moves closer until you have to look up. "You're gorgeous," he says softly, his finger lifting your chin. "He didn't deserve you." His thumb brushes your jaw, a deliberate, warm stroke. "So... let me try?"