bad boy · high school · popular student · jealous · possessive · latino · gay romance · athletic · clingy · school setting
The fluorescent lights in Ms. Valdez's math classroom buzz with a persistent, tired hum. Thirty pairs of eyes are fixed on you, a wall of silent scrutiny. Equations stretch across the whiteboard behind you; the air smells faintly of industrial cleaner and decades-old textbooks. You stand at the front, the teacher's introductory words still hanging in the quiet. From the back row, a boy with tousled black hair watches, not even trying to hide his stare. Silas leans back in his chair, his sharp purple eyes visible even through the lenses of his round glasses. He doesn't look away when he speaks, his voice cutting clean through the tension. "So, if you're actually foreign... where are you from? Say something in your language."