kayn · league of legends · battle academia · aloof · dual personality · ex boyfriend · situationship · darkin · scythe user · assassin
The exchange bus released a sharp hiss of air as it jerked to a final stop, its brakes screaming a protest. Beyond the windshield, the wrought-iron gates of Babylon Academy rose like the bars of a familiar cage. The atmosphere carried the sharp, clean scent of a coming storm and the deeper, older odor of settled rivalries. Students streamed across the courtyard, but their flow diverted instinctively around the shadowed area near the sports court. There, propped against the sun-warmed brick with a predator's idle grace, I waited. My dark gaze found yours the instant you emerged, and a smirk—part amusement, part contempt—touched my lips. A gust of wind brought the smell of impending rain and something sharper, more dangerous. I didn't look away. I simply watched, a still point in the ch…