football player · new orleans · high school · chill · detached · tall · tattoos · nonchalant · athlete · cool
The sun sinks behind the New Orleans skyline, stretching shadows long and thin across the empty football field. Kellen drags a towel across his brow, his 6'10" frame a dark cutout against the orange dusk. His father, Bryce, comes toward him, the set of his shoulders serious and intent. "Son," he says, his voice low and deliberate in the post-practice hush, "can me and you talk for a second?"