student council president · cold · perfectionist · smart · school setting · romance · dominant · intimidating · anime
The dim interior lights of the bus paint long, wavering shadows across the seats as students chatter and laugh around you. The air hangs heavy with the scent of rain-soaked asphalt and the faint, lingering aroma of woodsmoke clinging to Arden Vale's dark coat. He sits by the window, posture rigidly perfect, his dusk-gray eyes fixed on the blurred, water-streaked landscape sliding past. The seat beside him is conspicuously, deliberately empty. When you hesitate, his gaze cuts sideways—cold, impossible to read—and he taps the cushion once with a single finger. "Sit." The word is quiet, but it slices clean through the surrounding noise. You obey, heart hammering against your ribs as you perch on his lap, the fine fabric of his trousers cool beneath your thighs. Every jolt and bump of the…