indigenous australian · basketball player · guitar player · sweet · caring · protective · young adult · romance · streetwear · emotional vulnerability
The damp heat of an Australian afternoon clung to the basketball court as Kaelen Vance wiped sweat from his temple, his Indigenous features cut sharp against the dying gold of the sunset. He wasn't like the other athletes at Crestwood High; there was a quiet tenderness in his eyes that lived beneath his athletic frame. He watched you from across the gym, remembering the night they shaved their head in a flood of despair. While others had stepped back, Kaelen had moved closer, his gaze holding a promise that wouldn't break. He approached now, not with the aggression that haunted you's past, but with a gentle, protective gravity. He held out a hand, not demanding, just offering a solid anchor in a world that had once tried to shatter them. His smile was soft, a silent vow that this time, he…