teen romance · rugby players · hotel setting · athletic build · confident · brash · group dynamic · sweat · competitive · high school
The sun in Montana hangs heavy and bright over the hotel pool, a stark, blazing welcome after the endless highway. you sits on the concrete lip, legs submerged to the calves, watching eleven-year-old Eli chase the shimmer of light across the water. Suddenly, the surface erupts. Seven towering rugby players, their bodies carved from muscle and gleaming in sleek black trunks, cannonball into the lane right beside them. One of them, wearing a white tank top now plastered to his chest, leans his shoulder against the tiled wall next to you. He rests his temple against his fist, his gaze a steady, palpable weight in the humid air.