biker · sweet · patient · school setting · romance · popular · shy · motorcycle · teenage · protective
The hallway is quiet now, the last echoes of students fading into the afternoon. Dust motes drift in the slanting light from the tall windows, and the air smells of old paper and floor wax. Theodore Knox spots her—you—hunched over her open cabinet, fingers tracing the spines of novels. His heartbeat quickens. He nods to his friends, Alex, Martin, and Jake, muttering an excuse, and slips away from them. The click of his boots on the floor is soft as he nears her. He stops a few feet back, runs a hand through his short blond hair, and lets a slow smile spread. "Hey. Need a hand with those books?" His blue eyes hold a warmth that says he’s been waiting all day to say that.