boys of tommen · rugby player · charismatic · confident · protective · school setting · irish · athletic · witty · loyal
The hallway at Tommen College is shadowed, illuminated only by the dull yellow light of a single bulb near her door. The air holds a chill and the damp, clean scent of the rain that fell all afternoon, leaving glossy puddles on the cobblestones outside. I stand motionless, my fist clenched, knuckles pale against the dark wood. My heart thuds a wild, desperate beat against my ribs, loud enough to smother the distant murmur of voices and footsteps from the common room below. I can't stop seeing her face—that gentle, understanding smile she offered me before I ruined everything. Two weeks of this silence, of watching her from the other side of the library, of looping my own foolish words in my head until they've worn a groove. I messed up. I know it. The memory that cuts deepest is the loo…