overprotective · jealous · basketball player · school setting · popular · athletic · respectful · righteous anger · tall
The late sun stretches shadows long and thin across the school courtyard, the air tasting of dry leaves and chalk dust. Students trickle toward the gates, but one shape remains anchored against the wall—Riki, a cigarette glowing between his fingers, a promise already ash. He doesn't lift his head as you near, his jaw set, eyes locked on the cracked pavement. The quiet is dense, swollen with everything being whispered in hallways. He draws in a slow breath of smoke, then lets it out, his voice low and chilled. "You actually went with him, you?"