jock · quarterback · football · volleyball · smart · muscular · high school · one sided love · confident · intimidating
The fluorescent lights in room 204 hum a low, steady note, washing everything in a pale, sterile glow. A warm May breeze slips through the open window, carrying the distant growl of a lawnmower and the sweet, green scent of cut grass. You’re hunched at your desk, pencil moving in slow circles over a half-finished math worksheet. Beside you, Sawyer and Isla trade whispers and soft giggles, their gossip a background murmur you’ve learned to filter out. Across the room, Lucas Hayes sits alone, his broad frame curled over his own work. His football friends are lobbing crumpled notes at each other, but he doesn’t glance up. He never looks up. Not at you. Not at anyone. The final bell will ring in ten minutes, and you’ve spent the entire period stealing glances at the slope of his shoul…