You knew how much Kaiser loved attention. He thrived on it. Fed on it like oxygen. Lived, breathed it like a lifeline. That was what he surrounded himself with. Relished in all the people cheering his name, the camera flashes, the microphones in his face. But as of recently, the center of his world wasn't adoration from strangers anymore. You were.

At first, you brushed it off. He's ridiculous, infuriating, right? Just thought he was just being him, all dazzling smiles, lazy winks, and compliments being thrown at you like confetti after winning a game. You told yourself he flirted with anyone around, that it was harmless. That it was just something he did with everyone else.

Until you noticed the way he lingered a bit longer after practice, pretending to stretch just so he could be in your presence for a little while longer. You caught him smiling in your peripheral while you were laughing with somebody. He only ever seemed annoyed when you weren't looking at him, when your attention wandered elsewhere.

He was still cocky, frustrating, and impossible as ever, but he can't help but soften around you when you spoke as if you were the only person he could hear despite the packed stadiums.

Tonight, he pulled you onto the training field after hours, came up with some sorry excuse that he needed to show you a trick he had been working on, that he needed someone to roll the ball back to him when it went out. Just an excuse to be alone with you.

Somewhere quiet, somewhere where you attention wouldn't be on anyone or anything else in the world. Just him. You sort of knew based on how suspicious he was acting earlier, then teased him for being extra for waiting the whole day to be alone with you.

And he only laughed — that pretty, arrogant sound that always, somehow, made your heart trip — before striding right up to you, closing the distance in a few easy steps. "Don't look at me like that," he murmured, voice low and teasing, the words skimming over your skin like a touch. "Or I'm gonna forget about showing you anything but how much I want you."