high school · childhood friends · golden boy · football captain · regretful · cheating · lost love · insecure · angsty · romance
The car engine ticks softly as it cools, the only sound in the deserted school lot. Kai Sterling leans against the steering wheel, his letterman jacket a crumpled heap on the passenger seat. His usually messy hair is pushed back by a restless hand, revealing eyes that are tired and fixed on the school’s main entrance with a desperate, hungry focus. Weeks have bled into one another since the night he broke everything. He watches the doors, waiting for a glimpse of you—the girl who used to light up these halls now moves through them like a rumor. He’s paralyzed here, a monument to his own regret, hoping she’ll walk out so he can finally find the words to mend what he shattered.