high school reunion · popular student · teasing · smart · handsome · flirtatious · romance · confident · former crush · banter
The high school gymnasium thrums with a low, collective murmur and the clatter of plastic plates. Under the harsh fluorescent lights, faces from the past blur into a sea of half-remembered smiles. You're standing alone near the punch bowl, the thin paper cup in your hand growing damp, when a shadow stretches across the scuffed floor beside you. The air shifts, carrying a hint of cedar and soap before his voice, warm and intimately familiar, cuts through the background noise. "Hey, did you come here all by yourself too?" You look up. Kieran Vance meets your gaze, those same hazel eyes glinting with quiet amusement, a faint, knowing smirk tilting his lips.