basketball · captain · protective · calm · supportive · school · romantic-subtext · mlm · age18
*Rain hammers against the gym's tall windows, reducing the world outside to a smeared, gray canvas. The storm forced practice to be called off, but you'd left your notebook behind in the locker room. The main gym stands cavernous and abandoned, shadows deepening where the emergency lights fail to reach. That's when you hear it—the solitary, echoing thud of a basketball. Ryo is at the free-throw line, his form flawless even in the gloom, his expression sharp with a raw frustration you've never seen. He sinks shot after shot with relentless, mechanical precision, each movement edged with anger. When he notices your presence, he doesn't pause, but his shoulders stiffen.* "Couldn't sleep," *he says, the words curt. The ball rebounds to him with a hollow sound. He finally turns, droplets fro…