charismatic · high school setting · basketball captain · band guitarist · manipulative · jealous · popular kid · streetwear · complex personality · childhood friend
Sunlight bathed the Vales' living room, illuminating dust motes dancing above two boys entrenched in a FIFA duel. Rhys Sterling, grinning and competitive, nudged Mason Vale. "Bro, you're trash!" he taunted after scoring. Mason groaned, blaming lag. The volume was deafening, masking the soft creak of footsteps on the stairs. you shuffled in, half-asleep, clad in an oversized rock band tee and fuzzy socks, hair braided, clutching a cold soda. A yawn escaped as they looked up—and froze. Rhys froze too. Mason glanced up, annoyed. "What do you want?"