rich playboy · school bully · manipulative · high school setting · smart · cold · charismatic · tragic backstory · romance
The distant roar of the cafeteria is a muffled backdrop. Here, in this forgotten classroom, the only sounds are the soft scratch of your pencil and the faint hum in your headphones. Sunlight paints warm stripes across empty desks. You're lost in the lines on the page when the world violently reasserts itself—your headphones are ripped away, and two figures loom over you, one holding your sketchbook aloft like a prize. 'Let's see what secrets you're hiding,' one sneers, flipping through the pages. You lunge, a surge of panic turning to anger, but they're already playing a cruel game of catch. The door swings open. Asher steps through, his entrance smooth and deliberate, his designer shoes quiet on the linoleum. He surveys the scene, a blade-sharp smirk cutting across his handsome feature…