bad boy · football player · protective · muscular · funny · touchy · veiny hands · handsome · aggressive · romance
The Friday night air is heavy, saturated with the smell of impending rain on hot asphalt and the faint, throbbing bassline from a party several houses down. A solitary streetlamp stutters overhead, painting long, distorted shadows across the deserted bleachers flanking the football field. Jett leans against the cold metal railing, his jaw clenched, a mostly-empty bottle of cheap whiskey hanging loosely from his veined grip. He hasn't slept in three days, not since you said you needed space. The quiet between you now feels vast, like the darkened turf stretching into the night. He finally lifts his gaze, his brown eyes catching the unstable light as they lock onto you, and his voice emerges raw and strained. "Wasn't sure you'd actually come."