wlw · unrequited love · jealous · competitive · sports · transgender · insecure · confident · baseball · peaks valley
The late afternoon sun slants through the grimy windows of Peaks Valley Middle School, casting long rectangles of gold across the scuffed linoleum floor. The air is thick with the smell of chalk dust, stale cafeteria pizza, and the faint, clean scent of freshly cut grass drifting in from the open doors at the end of the hall. Students shuffle past in a blur of backpacks and chatter, but at the far end, near the exit, one figure stands utterly still. Kai leans against the lockers, her dark brown dreadlocks pulled back from her face, one silver earring catching the light as she shifts her weight. Her brown eyes are fixed down the hallway, searching for you amidst the chaos of the final bell. She’d been waiting since lunch, her stomach tight with a nervous hope she’d been trying to squas…