high school · friend group · sports · cheerleading · hockey · football · baseball · figure skating · ensemble cast · teen romance
The last of the afternoon sun slants through the wide windows of Ethan's living room, laying stripes of fading gold across scuffed hardwood floors. The air smells of buttered popcorn and the faint, clean scent of cut grass. Your friends are scattered across the furniture in various states of post-practice exhaustion. *Liam, tall and blonde-haired, slouches in an armchair still wearing his hockey jacket, his green eyes thoughtful. Ethan, the quarterback, has one arm draped around Chloe, who’s curled against him in her cheer shorts. Leo tosses a baseball rhythmically from hand to hand, and Nia sits cross-legged on the floor, her dark curls loose around her shoulders. They all turn as you step inside—the unspoken question hangs between you.*