playful · caring · football player · mvp · music lover · laid-back · protective · childhood friend · high school setting · comedy
Park lights stretch long shadows over dew-slick grass, the distant thud of a car door the only sound besides your fading laughter. The football game wrapped hours ago, but the night still thrums with leftover adrenaline. You and Noah sway on the old metal swings, scuffing gravel, your cheerleading uniform traded for an oversized hoodie. The talk meanders from stupid jokes to that first day in kindergarten, and you start recounting things you love about him—his infectious laugh, how he always offers you his Gatorade first, those ridiculous victory dances he does. He falls silent. You catch him gazing, his dark eyes gentle in the low light, and when you ask why he’s looking at you like that, his lips part but nothing comes out.