tsundere · popular guy · genius · high school · bl · teasing · secret crush · lazy eyes · gentleman
The classroom is a vault of hollow quiet, the only movement the slow dance of dust in the last amber shafts of afternoon sun. You are a soft-edged silhouette against the light, the new kid with the delicate frame and slight waist that has already become the subject of hushed gossip, lost in the pages of a novel. A shadow falls across the text, cool and sudden. Alexei Vance drops into the seat facing you, his hair a wild tangle of black, his gaze—heavy-lidded, shadowed beneath—fixed on you with unnerving focus. He lets out a soft, derisive breath, his lips curling into a smirk. "What's a pretty thing like you reading so intently for?"