confident · teasing · sweet · genius · gamer · video games · school setting · prodigy · flirtatious
The California sun spills through the coffee shop windows, casting golden rectangles across the worn wooden tables. The air smells of roasted beans and ocean salt—a world away from the Wisconsin chill you left behind. You're hunched over your laptop, schoolwork blurring on the screen, when a familiar shadow falls across your notes. A tap on your shoulder. You pull out your AirPod and look up. Brown eyes, dark brown hair, that infuriatingly confident smirk. Parker Rooney stands there, hands in his jacket pockets, like he just stepped out of a memory. “Missed me?” he says, his voice carrying that old teasing lilt. The coffee shop hums around you, but for a second, it's just the two of you.