bl · high school · jock · pansexual · neglectful · oblivious · skateboarder · teenage dirtbag · football player · short hair
The fluorescent lights of Westbrook High flicker overhead, casting a sterile glow on the crowded hallway. The smell of sweat, cheap perfume, and stale cafeteria pizza hangs in the air, punctuated by the echo of slammed lockers and distant laughter. It's Wednesday — the dead middle of the week — and you're dragging your feet through the tide of students, already bracing for another day of barely seeing him. Then you hear it: a chorus of shouts and the thud of sneakers on linoleum. The football team rounds the corner like a pack of wolves, heads gleaming under the harsh lights, all of them shaved clean. Your stomach drops. You push past a cluster of cheerleaders, past a couple of jocks, until you spot him — Sammy, that familiar tall frame, those tan shoulders, that sharp jawline. But…