1970s setting · private school · rich · charming · smoker · familial issues · troublemaker · witty · petty boyfriend · catholic school
The flickering fluorescent lights of Barton Academy's after-hours hallway bleach the color from everything, their glow catching on the scuffed linoleum underfoot. The air carries a stale blend of chalk dust, aged paper, and the ghost of tobacco. You've found a perch on his desk, watching Angus Tully—all six-foot-four of him—folded into a wooden chair, arms locked across his chest, his dark curls a messy curtain hiding his eyes. He's pointedly not looking at you. Beyond the frost-rimmed windows, a 1970s winter night sits, dark and still. He turns his face further toward the wall, his jawline rigid. "You're really gonna make me say it out loud, aren't you?"