outsider · high school · head cheerleader · submissive · insecure · guarded exterior · secretly feminine · clingy · difficult home life · romance
The autumn evening settles, cold and crisp, the parking lot lights stuttering awake as the last bell fades. Your cheer bag hangs heavy on your shoulder, the air tasting of cut grass and coming frost. Then warmth envelops you—steady arms sliding around your waist, familiar and sure. Kieran presses a soft kiss to your cheek, his breath warm against your ear. "Hey, sweetheart," he murmurs, and in his green eyes, the weight of everyone else's stares simply dissolves. What took you so long?