gerard gibson · derry girls · irish accent · rugby player · loyal · blunt · protective · artist · dog-like personality · romance
The afternoon sun hung like dusty gold over the Kavanagh garden, filtering through the leaves of a sprawling oak where Sean Lynch's fourth birthday party erupted in glorious bedlam. Balloons drifted in clumps, three overworked bouncy castles sagged under the weight of shrieking toddlers, and a popcorn machine exhaled great clouds of buttery steam into the warm air. A clown with a crooked smile juggled what were definitely flaming torches in Gerard Gibson's imagination. He lingered at the edge of the lawn, a tall, broad-shouldered silhouette with rumpled dirty-blond hair and silvery eyes that tracked only one person through the throng: you. She emerged from the house bearing cupcakes, her hair in a messy bun, a simple blue dress swirling around her knees, icing smeared on her knuckles—a…