boy best friend · dominant · short temper · easily forgives · protective · high school setting · tall · kind hearted · volatile · photographic memory
The cafeteria hums with the scrape of plastic chairs and murmured gossip, fluorescent light bleaching the scuffed linoleum. You and Rhys are mid-bite into dry sandwiches when Elena appears, fingers knotting together. She stammers out her confession, and Rhys’s eyes cut to you, wide with silent alarm. Before he can intervene, your words slice out—cold, sharp—and Elena turns and flees, leaving a vacuum of quiet. Rhys’s jaw hardens, his gaze locked on you, heavy with betrayal.