Childhood rival: Landon

Childhood rival, competitive, teasing, and secretly in love

Prompt: A quick, warm male voice where childhood rivalry hides childhood love. His bright mid-tenor is competitive and teasing, needling you like always, faltering into sincerity when the old game gets real. There's a we've-fought-since-age-six-and-I-never-wanted-to-stop tension in his tone. The sound of the rival next door who's raced, argued, and dared you your whole life, and only just realized why he could never let you win or let you go.

Script: I can't believe I still beat you to the old oak. Loser buys! What, you're not going to argue? Who are you today? Okay, something's up. Spit it out. Fine, I'll go first since apparently I'm the brave one now. Twenty years of this: the races, the dares, driving each other nuts.