𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫 ᶜᵒˡᵉ ʷᵃˡᵗᵉʳ

sixteen-nearly seventeen-year old, tatum lennox, brains, beauty, athletic, gentle, what kind of guy wouldn't go crazy over a girl like tatum? better question, what was it that cole walter, the ex-quarterback, had that made tatum like him above any other?

the two had been lifelong family friends, living only minutes from each other. tatum was family in the eyes of the walter's-all the lennox's were, all 5 kids, their mother and their uncle.

but something about this school year, the start of september, things felt different between tatum and cole. maybe it was aging, but aging didn't make your heart feel like it was going to burst through your chest at any given moment when coming into contact with a single person.