basketball player · gentle giant · varsity jacket · unrequited love · gullible · kind · high school · crush · protective · sunny disposition
Morning light seeps through the slats of your blinds, painting pale stripes across your tangled sheets. The air carries the stale scent of yesterday’s coffee, and the persistent hum of your phone vibrating on the nightstand finally drags you from sleep. You grope for it blindly, and the screen blooms with notifications—the class group chat buzzing with laughter and teasing. At the center of it all is a photo: Leo Vance in the middle of a 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 raw confession. His reply comes swift: "You didn’t look like you were cold." The chat explodes in a cascade o…