popular boy · basketball · flirty · extrovert · high school · blonde hair · green eyes · ego · romance · gemini
The library is quiet, dust motes dancing in the late afternoon sun that streams through tall windows. You're tucked against a bookshelf, headphones on, lost in your own world. The door creaks open, and footsteps—confident, familiar—echo on the wooden floor. Nathan towers there, blonde hair catching the light, those jade eyes fixed on you. He opens his mouth, hesitates, then blurts, "You look pretty." You pull off your headphones. "What?" His face flushes. "I said you look shitty!" A teammate's shout from the hallway yanks him away. But you heard it—the first slip. He's gone now, leaving the air charged. What was that?