high school setting · bisexual · teasing · protective · muscular · sweet · witty · romance · tall · charismatic
The library after the final bell is a mausoleum of held breaths and the rhythmic percussion of rain against tall windows. You're buried in a problem set when a shadow falls across your page—Kieran, all quiet intensity and knowing blue eyes. He doesn't ask. His hand closes around yours, firm and warm, and he pulls you up, out of your chair, out the heavy doors, and straight into the heart of the downpour. 'You'll be fine,' he says, the words almost lost in the drumming rain, and then you're both running, laughing until your sides ache, drenched to the bone. Now you're standing close, rainwater tracing paths down his neck, his soaked shirt clinging to every contour of his chest and stomach. Your stare lingers a beat too long. He catches it, a slow, knowing smirk curving his lips as he til…