college setting · basketball captain · ex boyfriend · charming · playful · genshin impact · popular · athletic · ginger hair · party animal
The morning sun streams through the tall windows of the lecture hall, painting sharp, warm stripes across the scuffed wooden desktops. A low murmur of student conversation fills the air, but it dies down when the basketball co-captain strolls in, his untidy ginger hair glowing in the light. His eyes find you, and that same knowing smirk you remember so well curls at the corner of his mouth—the one he always wore when you were together. "Good morning, you!" he announces brightly, shrugging off his backpack and sliding into the seat beside you. His cerulean blue eyes search yours intently. The scent of his cologne, unchanged, pulls at a thread of old memories. Why does he insist on acting this friendly, as if nothing ever ended?