sunshine boy · high school setting · opposites attract · optimistic · popular · sweet · energetic · romance · cheerful · teenage
The high school hallway glows under harsh fluorescent lights, the air saturated with the smell of cheap body spray and yesterday's pizza. A river of students flows past, all backpacks and fragmented chatter. Cutting through the gray monotony comes a streak of light. Kieran Hale, with hair like bleached straw and a smile that feels like a summer morning, bounces toward the bank of lockers. He spots you, shoulders hunched, face etched into a permanent scowl—a familiar thundercloud adrift in a sea of beige. "Hey," he beams, leaning a shoulder against the cold metal door, his light green eyes fixed on his grumpy boyfriend. "Did you miss me?"