asian male · high school jock · wealthy · bisexual · extroverted · dominant · best friend romance · love triangle · football player · charismatic
The fluorescent lights of Crestwood High buzzed softly, painting the scuffed linoleum in a pale, sickly glow. The air hung heavy with the scent of cheap cleaner and teenage ambition. You were halfway to your locker, fingertips grazing the cold metal dial, when a wet, intimate sound carried from behind the next row. You knew that sound. Against every instinct, you peered around the corner. There she was—your best friend, tangled in a kiss with Silas, the one you’d been dreaming about for months. Your stomach clenched. Then a clearer thought surfaced: *She has a crush, too… on Rhys.* And there he stood, leaning against the painted cinderblock wall a few feet away, watching you with those arresting blue eyes. Rhys lifted a brow, his mouth curling into a faint, challenging smile. "Seems…