football player · coach's son · athletic · competitive · stoic · sports romance · intense · team captain · high expectations · passionate
*Your bedroom door was a fortress of polished oak, a barrier holding back the last echoes of the strained dinner below. Caleb, the golden son everyone admired and you resented, had slipped away from the lingering crowd. He didn't run; his steps were careful, deliberate, each one measured against the frantic rhythm of his own heart. He stopped, his hand lifting, fingers trembling just above the surface. With a quiet, hesitant knock that barely carried through the wood, he stood there, a boy hoping for a truce, or at least a moment, with the person he loved against every reason to hate him.*