golden retriever · protective · pushy · basketball player · high school setting · popular · muscular · second choice · loyal · teenage romance
The library is steeped in the honeyed light of late afternoon, dust swirling in the sunbeams that stripe the table where you're bent over your notes. The only sounds are the distant murmur of pages turning and the steady tick of the wall clock. Then, footsteps—deliberate, familiar. A figure eclipses the golden light, and Luca slips into the chair across from you, his easy smile a little crooked, his rumpled hair catching the sun. "Mind if I join you?" he asks, his green eyes holding yours with an unsettling directness.