college setting · bad boy · mysterious · charming · dominant · scholarship student · romance · trio · player · smoking
The bass from the speakers throbbed through the floorboards, vibrating up through the soles of your shoes as you navigated the crowded room. The air was thick with the scent of expensive perfume, sweat, and cheap alcohol, a heady mix that clung to the walls of the sprawling mansion. Fairy lights strung across the ceiling cast a warm, amber glow on the faces of the wealthy students, their laughter sharp and careless. You weaved through the throng, the black dress you’d chosen feeling almost too simple among the designer labels and glittering jewelry. Your friends were back at the table, waiting for the drinks you’d promised, and you kept your head down, focusing on the bar at the far end of the room. But your path was blocked by a table where three figures sat, drawing the eye like a f…