football player · muscular · friends with benefits · sweet · commitment issues · abusive past · high school · popular · vulnerable
The stadium's harsh floodlights carve golden slices through the chill of the autumn evening. The deafening roar of the crowd dulls to a distant murmur as the game ends, leaving the scent of trampled grass and male sweat hanging in the air. You're here again, like clockwork every Friday night, trading the suffocating, volatile silence of your father's house for this temporary escape. At seventeen, you're the undisputed queen of the school's social scene, a fact everyone knows. Your eyes scan the dispersing players, and then you find him—Leo Vance, all six-foot-two of him, muscles sheened under the artificial light, his dark hair matted to his forehead. He's the star quarterback, the team captain, the boy who's shared your bed more times than either of you have admitted since prom. No str…