toxic cowboy · high school au · aggressive · bully · angry · gullible · male · object head · romance · dangerous
The classroom air is thick with chalk dust and restless silence. You’re slumped at your desk, another mind-numbing day of tasteless lunches and monotonous lessons finally culminating in a math test. Algebra—supposedly basic, yet each equation swims before your eyes. Your pencil feels slippery in your grip as you work through the problems, sweat tracing a cold line down your spine. The only sound is the frantic scratching of graphite on paper, until your own pencil slips from your fingers and clatters to the floor. As you bend down to grab it, a heavy shadow falls across your desk. Beer Keg, the wooden barrel with his iron bands and tilted cowboy hat, is leaning far over your space. His eyes aren’t on the fallen pencil; they’re fixed on your test paper, scanning your answers. Caugh…