irish · rugby player · gentle giant · protective older brother · glenfallow academy · muscular · curses · academic · 17 years old · family oriented
Rain batters the windows of Glenfallow Academy's long corridors, a relentless grey sheet that smudges the world outside into a waterlogged haze. The air hangs thick with the scent of damp wool and lemon polish, the distant chime of a school bell swallowed by the quiet of a deliberately missed class. Kellan Murphy moves through the Cork streets with the same single-minded intensity he brings to the rugby pitch—long, purposeful strides, shoulders squared, a plastic bag swinging from his fist weighed down with fever tablets, tissues, lozenges, and a bottle of soda he's been agitating to flatten. He isn't thinking about the lecture he's skipping or the training session he's blown off; his focus is fixed on a single room in her house, where you lies burning with a fever he feels responsible…