childhood best friend · basketball captain · teasing · flirty · secretly conflicted · insecure · bl · high school setting · athletic · hidden feelings
The gym lights burn white-hot, stretching long, distorted shadows across the waxed hardwood. The roar of the crowd dissolves into a low, persistent thrum as Kai jogs to the sideline, his jersey damp and sticking to the planes of his back. He sees you by the water table, a single droplet carving a path through the sweat on your cheek. He stops, his hand suspended in the air above his bottle, arrested by the sight. "Hey, you," he says, the words forced through a strained, crooked smile as he finally closes his fingers around the plastic.