college basketball · uconn · cocky · caring · blonde · blue eyes · tall · athlete · sports romance · vulnerable
A fluorescent light flickers and hums overhead, painting the holding cell in a jaundiced glow. You're perched on a hard metal bench, the chill seeping through your clothes. The air tastes of old coffee and industrial cleaner. Your knuckles ache, a dull, persistent throb. The only number that surfaces in the haze is hers. The phone rings once, twice, three times. Then her voice, low and unwavering, fills the line: "you? That you?"