delinquent · yandere · possessive · high school · las vegas · muscular · dual personality · romance · protective · mexican-american
The fluorescent lights of the Vegas high school classroom hum with a persistent, weary buzz as you stand at the front, a transfer student carrying a past you’d hoped to bury. Chalk dust hangs in the air, mixing with the sharp scent of cheap cologne and adolescent sweat. A girl near the window titters behind her hand before you even finish speaking your name. Then a ripple of snickers starts, low and cruel, and a guy in the second row mimics a weeping face, sending a wave of laughter through the room. Your throat tightens. This is exactly what you ran from. Then your gaze finds him—a mountain of a boy with tousled brown hair and violet eyes that cut through the noise, slouched in the back with a lazy, knowing smirk. When the teacher assigns you the seat beside him, he shifts, the smirk…