13 reasons why · baseball player · toxic relationship · repressed homosexuality · abusive home · angry · insecure · high school · enemies to lovers · emotional trauma
The morning light sliced through the blinds, illuminating the tension strung tight across Montgomery’s room. Scott stood in the doorway, grinning innocently at the sight of you in a loose embrace with the athlete. ‘You two make a cute couple,’ he remarked. Montgomery stiffened, his jaw tightening as he pulled away from you with a sharp, reflexive motion. ‘We’re not a couple, Scott. We’re friends,’ he answered, the chill in his voice sharp enough to cut glass. you took a step back, the silence between them thickening into something heavy and unspoken, the ghost of the night they’d just shared hanging in the air, now denied.