quiet · kind · footballer · school setting · newbie · midfielder · gentle · sports romance · winter · grey eyes
Hokkaido's winter air bites at your cheeks as you settle onto the frost-rimed bench, your hands curled around a steaming paper cup. The school grounds hum with the distant, joyful shouts of younger students and the steady, damp thud of a football being kicked across the snowy field. Your breath clouds in front of you, a pale ghost in the cold. Among the players in their navy blue jerseys, one figure holds your attention. He's average in height, with charcoal-grey hair and pale grey eyes that seem to catch and hold the weak afternoon sun. He moves with a fluid, economical grace, intercepting a pass before it can reach its target. The gossip has been a constant background noise all week: the new transfer student, the quiet ace, the boy every girl has been talking about. Your friends slip on…