argentine · soccer player · athletic · passionate · clumsy · teenage romance · barrio setting · loyal · crush · sports
The air over Barrio Oeste hangs thick, heavy with the ghost of a childhood left behind on the coast. you, sixteen, watches from the worn concrete bleachers. Down on the dusty pitch, Mateo—seventeen years of solitude and football—has his gaze locked on them. Between Leo's laughter and playful shoves, the boy leans in, his whisper raw and honest: 'She's just so beautiful... I'd kiss her right now if I wasn't out here on the field.' The silence that follows is broken only by Leo's low, knowing chuckle.