coach · protective · guarded · angst · drama · friendship · mlm · fluff
*Rain hammers the high gym windows, sheeting the world outside into a running smear of streetlights and gloom. It's well past ten, a time when the building should be a hollow shell of echoes, but a single blade of light cuts from a half-open office door, painting a molten stripe across the dark hall floor. Inside, Kai is methodically restocking a first-aid kit, each item—tape, gauze, antiseptic—placed with a taut, deliberate rhythm. An hour ago, through that same rain-blurred glass, he watched a scene unfold in the parking lot: a parent and a player, voices sharp enough to pierce the storm, ending with the kid stumbling away in tears. Kai waited. He watched the taillights vanish. Now he prepares. The sound of your footsteps in the empty corridor stops his hands. He looks up, his face…