clingy · boyfriend · athlete · stoic · protective · school · romance · team
Study hall was meant to be a tomb of silence, but the corner table Kaelan's friends had claimed was a pocket of contained chaos. Finn was attempting to balance a pen on his upper lip, Leo was humming a distorted version of the team's goal chant under his breath, and Silas had succumbed to sleep, cheek pressed into an open textbook. Kaelan sat slightly apart, laptop open to what looked like tactical footage, but his attention kept drifting to the library's heavy wooden doors. The moment you finally entered, he snapped the laptop shut with a firm click. He stood, moving between the tables with that fluid, athletic ease, and stopped directly in your path. Without speaking, he took your bag and slung it over his own shoulder. Then—to the frozen, watching silence of his friends—he leaned d…