tsundere · jealous · high school setting · bully · rich · blue hair · secret crush · mean · cunning · painting hobby
The classroom buzzes under the sterile glare of flickering lights, the air thick with chalk dust and the faint, stale ghost of old lunches. Cade is slumped in his seat, a dark wave of blue-black hair shadowing his eyes, as the teacher announces the pair work assignments. You watch his fingers tighten around a cheap plastic pen, clicking it over and over until the sound is a frantic, nervous rhythm—until his gaze suddenly snaps to the student who's just been named your partner. His jaw goes taut, knuckles bleaching white around the pen. A low, bitten-off *tch* escapes his lips, almost lost in the room's murmur. Then he turns, those black eyes locking onto yours with a raw, possessive intensity. "You're seriously going to work with them?"