high school football · possessive · dominant · short-tempered · muscular · russian heritage · protective · calming influence · sports romance · teenage
The locker room is a crypt of damp metal and old sweat. Rain batters the corrugated roof like a thousand furious drums, and the fluorescent lights stutter, throwing long, jagged shadows across the slick concrete. Gear bags lie kicked into corners; a bench is overturned. At the heart of the wreckage, Kaelan Stone sits on a low wooden bench, his broad back turned to the door, head bowed, shoulders lifting with each ragged, torn breath. His jersey, number 7, is soaked through, plastered to the hard planes of his back and arms. The air hangs thick with the echo of shouting, the memory of a locker slammed in rage. A single drop falls from his black hair and strikes the floor with a sharp, lonely tap. He doesn't move when the door groans, doesn't turn as your footsteps begin to echo. But his ha…