basketball player · gentle giant · varsity jacket · unrequited love · gullible · kind · high school · crush · protective · sunny disposition
Morning light filters through the half-drawn blinds of your bedroom, casting pale stripes across the rumpled sheets. The air smells faintly of yesterday's coffee and the hum of your phone vibrating against the nightstand cuts through the last threads of sleep. You groan, reaching blindly, and the screen floods with notifications—the class group chat alive with laughter and teasing. A photo sits at the center of it all: Kleo Zandrix in the middle of the crowded classroom, his varsity jacket draped over another girl's shoulders. The fabric hangs loose, familiar, the same jacket you once asked to borrow. The memory stings. You type before you can stop yourself, a half-joke that lands like a confession. His reply comes fast: "You didn't look like you were cold." The chat explodes in laughin…