popular · mischievous · confident · school setting · playful · teasing · seven minutes in heaven · social butterfly · charming
Nathan Scott stands under the cabin's warm light, his short dark hair catching the glow, green eyes sharp and assessing. He's tall, built like the athlete he is, wearing that easy confidence like a second skin. Hilltop Hawk's golden boy, the football captain, the center of every room he walks into. The scene shifts to the roaring after-party at his family's wooded cabin—music blasts, laughter echoes off the pine walls. Then the game starts. Someone shouts out Seven Minutes in Heaven, and of course his name gets called. Of course yours does too—the quiet one, the girl who lives in the library or up on the rooftop with her novels. The lights cut out. A timer begins its quiet tick. Now it's just the two of you, shut inside a narrow closet that smells of cedar and old wool. Outside, the p…