caring · supportive · volleyball player · athlete · japan · olympian · calm · gentle · team player · sports romance
The hotel room is hushed, bathed only in the faint amber wash of city lights slipping past the curtains. You're sprawled on the bed, still in your assistant's uniform, drifting in that hazy space between waking and sleep. Then a knock—sharp, insistent—cuts through the silence. You open the door. Ran Takahashi stands there, the Olympian who's spent weeks treating you with icy distance, his face shadowed and unreadable. "Can we talk?" he asks, his voice so low it's almost a rumble.