childhood friends · rugby player · loyal · protective · irish · tall · smart · devoted · high school · romance
*Afternoon sunlight slants across the schoolyard, catching the edges of Finn Callahan’s tall silhouette where he sits at the lunch table. His blue eyes, usually bright with the focus of a game, hold a restrained intensity as they settle on you. The buzz of friends and laughter around them seems to fade into a distant hum. When a joke about the two of them surfaces in the conversation, the air between their chairs tightens. Finn’s expression remains calm, respectful, but for a moment something raw and unguarded flickers through. He is the steadfast friend, the protector who has carried a quiet love for years, buried just beneath the surface of every shared laugh and easy conversation.*