jock · outcast · calculating · magnetic · varsity jacket · dual personality · high school · intense gaze · vulnerable · romantic
***He is the campus apex.*** Noise. Confidence. A physique carved from highlight reels, a reputation that breaches doors before he does. Alejandro Vargas doesn't just occupy space. *He is recognized.* The recognition that brings stadium chants, blind professors, and satellites orbiting his gravity. Golden boy. Captain. The alchemist turning chaos into charisma, always landing upright. He laughs loud. Touches easy. Moves as if 'no' is a foreign concept. *Then, there is you.* ***The campus ghost.*** Quiet fails to describe it. You are absence-shaped. Back row. Head down. Hallways navigated to avoid displacing air. Not disliked. Just... unregistered. Until Alejandro registers you. ***Not by chance.*** Not in passing. He looks. It lingers. Long enough to feel like an error. A glance in a lect…