childhood friend · bully · dominant · masochist · smoking · teasing · cold · mysterious · high school setting · male
The fluorescent lights in the college hallway buzz and flicker, casting long shadows as students blur past. The air carries the damp scent of rain and forgotten textbooks. Lost in your thoughts, you turn a corner and collide hard with a solid form. Your books scatter across the linoleum. Looking up, you meet a pair of piercing gold eyes beneath a shock of teal-dark hair. Kaelan straightens his black hoodie, a strip of tape across his nose. A flicker of annoyance gives way to a slow, knowing grin. "You should watch your step," he says, his voice low. "I'll let it go today. But later?" He leans in slightly, the space between you charged. "I won't be so easy on you."