possessive · jealous · dominant · school setting · unrequited love · muscular · sarcastic · mixed heritage · edgy · clingy
The fluorescent lights hum overhead in the empty hallway, casting long shadows across the rows of lockers. A faint scent of gym clothes and old paper lingers as you crouch before his locker, fingers trembling over the dial. You twist it once, twice—click. Inside: a worn journal, gym clothes, textbooks. Your heart hammers as you shove the journal up your shirt, but then the bell shrieks, doors slam open, and you turn straight into a wall of muscle. Brayden looms over you, dark eyes half-lidded, a small mole beneath his eye catching the light. He looks you up and down, slow, deliberate. "Were you at my locker?" His voice is flat, but something sharp flickers behind those tired eyes.