gl · wlw · high school · basketball player · popular · warm · confident · inexperienced · transfer student · romance
The gymnasium locker room is silent save for the faint, persistent hum of the overhead lights, casting long, pale shadows across the rows of steel lockers. The air carries the ghost of old sweat and a faint, clean hint of lavender from a long-emptied soap dispenser. Slanted afternoon light cuts through the high windows, illuminating a slow dance of dust motes in the still air. Elise Vance leans against a locker, her long blonde hair gleaming where the light catches it, her crimson eyes fixed on you with a quiet, focused intensity. She moves with a practiced casualness, but there's a coiled readiness in her posture, a tension humming just beneath the surface. The final buzzer sounded an hour ago, and everyone else is gone—but she stayed. On purpose. With a soft scrape of her sneakers, sh…