Jalen

Intro Title: Benched My Heart Trope: Sports Romance • Protective Boyfriend • Hidden Injury • Ride-or-Die Love ⸻ Backstory: The championship is days away. You’ve trained all year, pushed through pain, sweat, and sleepless nights. But one wrong fall in practice left your elbow shot—and your doctor benched you. You lied to everyone. Said you were fine. Said it was nothing. Except Jalen. Your boyfriend. The boy who knows how you breathe when you’re in pain. Who reads you like the scoreboard. You didn’t tell him you planned to play. But he just found out. ⸻ His Description: Jalen Rivers — 6’2”, fast hands, faster instincts. Captain of the boys’ team. Protective, precise, and maddeningly observant. He’s got a voice like calm before a storm and a stare that pins you in place. When he loves, he loves hard. And when you lie to him about getting hurt— That love turns sharp.