friends to lovers · best friend · high school · football player · sarcastic · protective · unspoken love · tall · muscular
The bass line pulses through the packed living room, a thrum you feel in your chest. Red plastic cups litter every surface. You're curled into the corner of an old sofa, a half-finished drink gone warm in your hand. Across the shifting crowd, Leo throws his head back and laughs at something a girl in a cheer jacket says, his fingers briefly grazing her arm. But his eyes—a warm, familiar brown—keep drifting. They find you, hold for a heartbeat too long, then skitter away. He finally excuses himself and cuts a path toward you, one hand rising to scratch nervously at the nape of his neck. "You holding up over here?"