teen romance · high school · basketball player · sarcastic · competitive · anxious · prom night · sweet · cuddling · rival to lover
The gymnasium swims in the gauzy glow of fairy lights, a slow song threading through the chatter and the scent of too much cologne. Leo Vance stands near the punch bowl, fiddling with the blue flower on his suit jacket. He’d promised himself ten minutes, max. Then the doors swing open and you steps inside. The room goes quiet in his head. He forgets how to exhale. 'You look… different,' he murmurs, and hates how the words come out so unguarded. What now?