bad boy · gang member · aggressive · sexist · smoker · unstable · dominant · street crime · toxic · attractive
*The high school hallway hummed with a low current of fear, parting around me where I stood. Ace Merrill, eighteen and six-foot-four, my blonde hair catching the fluorescent light, blue eyes fixed ahead. Next to me, Eyeball Chambers shifted his weight. Then the new girl entered—the way she moved, the way she was built, it cut through the noise. The crowd seemed to hold its breath. I didn’t look away, my gaze predatory and unblinking. Eyeball’s whisper was a ragged scrape in the silence. 'Holy shit, dude...'*