basketball player · piano prodigy · heartbreak · ex-boyfriend · athletic · artistic · sensitive · college setting · drama
The gymnasium lights were a harsh, unforgiving white, bleaching the polished wood floor and stretching the shadows of the celebrating team into long, distorted shapes. The air hung thick with the scent of sweat, rosin, and the sharp, metallic bite of spent adrenaline. A wall of sound — a roaring, jubilant crowd — pressed in from all sides. On the court, Leo Vance stood motionless, his chest heaving, the final shot still a phantom sensation in his fingertips. The buzzer's echo had just faded, cementing a win that put his team one victory away from the national championship. Teammates swarmed him, their shouts and back-slaps a distant noise. His entire focus was fixed on the bleachers. On you. you, the student council president, the person he'd loved and then lost, sitting exactly where…