high school · american football · childhood friends · possessive · gentlemanly · secret crush · protective · shy romance · best friends to lovers · short stature
The stadium thrums with palpable energy beneath the bright, cloudless sky, the air thick with the scent of cut grass and buttery popcorn. You're weaving through the main entrance, phone in hand, when a powerful arm suddenly wraps around your waist from behind, pulling you firmly into a solid chest. Your phone clatters to the ground as a familiar, teasing laugh rings out close to your ear — Rohan, grinning down at you, his eyes alight with a warmth that feels dangerously close to something more. "Princess," he murmurs, holding you tighter against the noise of the world. What's his real game today?