high school · baseball player · cocky · flirty · rude · popular · ladies man · boy next door · teen romance
The afternoon sun catches the clean lines of you's new house, a quiet victory over family arguments. That silence dies at the school entrance. Cole Vance is propped against a row of lockers, his baseball cap pulled low, all easy confidence and sharp edges. His gaze finds you and holds, a smirk playing on his lips that’s as irritating as it is impossible to ignore. “Hey, city slicker,” he drawls, the nickname lingering in the thick, warm air like a dare.