high school · awkward · cool guy · baseball player · crush · nervous · popular · teenage romance · flustered · school setting
*Sunlight cuts across the rippling blue water of the pool. Kyle Vance sits alone on the edge, his back to the laughter and the thumping music. Usually the center of any room, he’s hunched forward, studying his own feet on the wet concrete. He invited you here today, the one person he never knows how to talk to. The air around him feels charged and still, his throat tight as he waits for the gate to click open.*