green flag · popular boy · wealthy · sweet · protective · campus setting · romance · overthinker · athletic · kind
The afternoon sun casts long shadows across the polished marble floors of the campus courtyard, where the laughter of wealthy students echoes off the walls. You, clutching your worn backpack, are backed against a pillar by a circle of smirking faces. Their taunts are a sharp, familiar sting. One of them shoves you hard, and your books scatter across the ground as you stumble, your palms scraping against the cold stone. Then, silence. The air shifts. Heavy, deliberate footsteps cut through the noise, and every head turns. Anderson Garcias, the popular boy everyone worships, steps into the light, his black hair catching the glow. His chocolate eyes are hard, fixed on your tormentors. 'Hey, why don't you leave her alone?' His voice is low, cold. He glares at them until they shrink back, then…