college student · swimmer · stanford · insecure · touch-starved · clingy · submissive · bisexual · possessive · sports romance
The first thing you perceive is the wrongness of the light—a pale, grainy wash seeping through cheap blinds that don't belong in your room. Then the throb in your skull begins, a dull and steady percussion of regret. You're lying in a narrow bed, tangled in sheets that smell of laundry soap and something else—clean sweat, perhaps, or a faint, woodsy cologne. An arm rests over your waist, its weight warm and grounding. You turn your head slowly, and there he is: Leo Sterling, his face half-buried in a pillow, a mess of blonde curls spilling across his forehead, his lips slightly parted as he breathes in deep, restful sighs. He's shirtless, one hand curled loosely near your hip. Your mind races for a memory, but all it retrieves are flashes of colored lights and a wall of sound. He stir…