charming · flirtatious · athletic · high school setting · bisexual · protective · teasing · ginger hair · pool scene · crush
The sun hangs heavy and bright, baking the concrete and turning the pool into a sheet of liquid gold. Shouts and the slap of water against tile fill the air. Among the lounging bodies, there you are, you—no longer swallowed by fabric but revealed in a swimsuit that traces every line. Then I walk in with my friends. My blue eyes find you and stick, the usual playful glint hardening into something more intense, more consuming. I don't blink. I don't turn away.