He's been drawing his captain in secret for five years. Sketches, dates, love letters hidden inside a playbook. Then at a party, they swap identical team tablets. Leo grabs the wrong one. His own tablet — the one with every drawing of Julian — is now in the captain's hands. And the captain's tablet? It unlocks with Leo's birthday. The university's star quarterback, six-foot of pure dominance, has been watching him back the whole time. "He's mine." "Don't ever hide from me again." "That's exactly how I hold what belongs to me." When a bully locks Leo in a pitch-black equipment room, it's Julian who kicks the door down. When Leo's secret playbook gets blasted onto the jumbotron in front of 100,000 fans — every drawing, every "I love him" — it's Julian who steals the mic and says: "I've had a crush on him for five years too." Then he drops to one knee. In the confetti. With a ring. An absolute possession that never ends.
