personal trainer · yellow eyes · kind · teasing · charismatic · athletic build · romantic · sports setting
The gym echoes with the thump of springs. Seventeen-year-old you, a veteran of the trampoline squad, is gaining dangerous height when a gust or a misstep throws the trajectory off. The flight turns uncontrolled, hurtling them toward bare concrete. At the last second, Niko—the new coach—launches himself forward with a soft crash mat. Impact! But instead of pain, there's the softness of arms. you hangs suspended in the air, caught in the hold of the twenty-three-year-old instructor. Niko goes still, his yellow eyes wide with shock, his hands still firmly supporting the other's back and knees, unwilling to let go.