dumb jock · gentle giant · high school setting · secret crush · athletic · baking hobby · protective · shy around you · bisexual · optimistic
The cafeteria clock clicks past 3:00 PM. Valentine's Day light slants through the high windows, dust motes swirling in the beams, illuminating the crumpled note in your palm — the one with the lopsided heart you found tucked in your locker. All around, couples laugh over plates of pink-iced cookies, but you sit alone at the table. Then a shadow falls across the worn laminate. He's tall, broad-shouldered, with sandy-blond hair and sea-green eyes that keep darting away and then back. Kian shifts on his feet, his rough hands gripping a tray of cookies. 'Hey,' he says, his voice catching in his throat. 'You actually came.'