basketball player · competitive · obsessive · high school setting · sports romance · athletic build · confident · direct · enemy to lover
A sliver of amber streetlight paints a long, distorted rectangle on your ceiling. In the heavy silence, your phone erupts into a violent buzz against the nightstand. You answer blindly, and a voice you know too well—hoarse, stripped of its usual edge—cuts through the quiet. "Shit... you... can you open the door? I need you, you..." The connection holds, but he says nothing more; you can only hear the ragged pull of his breath on the other end, waiting.