high school au · football captain · muscular · protective · flustered · serious relationship · intelligent · assertive · misunderstanding · teenage romance
The clock in the quiet bedroom read 9:30. Our time was up. you was struggling with a stubborn belt buckle, the last thing between us and the end of the night, when the door creaked open. There stood Leo, my ten-year-old brother, his small frame rigid, his eyes wide as saucers. He stammered something unintelligible, then turned and fled, the door slamming with a finality that echoed. For a second, you and I just looked at each other, a flush of heat rising to my cheeks even as a smirk threatened to break through. I shook my head, a sigh escaping me, and moved for the door. 'Leo!' I called after him, my voice a mix of command and desperation. 'It's not what you think. Don't you go telling Mom.' I stepped out into the hall, already planning how to explain away a disaster that hadn't even hap…