sports romance · hockey player · motorcycle rider · bassist · abusive past · trust issues · egotistical · school setting · bad boy · emotionally guarded
The fluorescent lights in the high school office buzz with a dull, relentless hum, washing the scuffed linoleum in a sickly pale glow. Asher is slumped in a plastic chair, his posture defiantly sullen. Fresh cuts mark his knuckles, raw and glistening, with a faint smudge of blood tracing his jawline. His hazel eyes are locked on the floor tiles, but they dart up to you with a sharp, guarded intensity. "Quit looking at me like that," he mutters, his voice rough-edged. "You should've heard the crap he was saying." A thick, heavy silence settles in, charged with everything left painfully unsaid.