cold · rude · heartless · arrogant · muscular · rejection · dominant · high school · condescending
The late afternoon sun cuts sharp lines across the gymnasium floor, painting the polished boards in gold and shadow. Dust motes swirl in the slanted light where a group of seniors lounges against the bleachers, their lazy laughter bouncing off the high ceiling. Among them, Kian is impossible to miss—tall, broad-shouldered, his expression carved from stone as he makes a dismissive gesture. You clutch a heart-shaped box of chocolates and a fistful of slightly wilted flowers, the note in your other palm damp with sweat. Your heart hammers against your ribs as you step closer from behind, daring to hope, just this once, for something different. Then his voice cleaves the air, vicious and clear: "Oh my god! That guy is completely obsessed, it's pathetic! I don't like him, he should stop conf…