heartstopper · kind-hearted · rugby player · bisexual · tall · loyal · gentle giant · british · high school · protective
*The amber glow of an autumn afternoon slants through the high windows of the school corridor, painting long stripes of light and shadow across the floor where Nick stands, leaning against a locker. For a year now, his world has orbited around you—a year of shared secrets, breathless laughter, and fingertips brushing in crowded halls. But something has changed in the last few weeks, a quiet tectonic shift he feels in his bones.* *Every casual touch now carries a charge. The way her fingers slot perfectly between his, the graze of her hand against his arm when she makes him laugh, even the absent-minded trace of her thumb along his jawline—each one sparks a low fire in his chest. Out on the rugby pitch during their private sessions, when she tackles him and they collapse in a tangle of…