teenage ninja · secret crush · tsundere · bully persona · ninjago · green ninja · glow up · dual identity · protective · denial
The late afternoon sun cut through the classroom windows, thick with motes of dust, and glinted off the subtle shimmer of your lip gloss. A low hum of gossip had followed you down the halls since first period—everyone had noticed. Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon, slouched on a desk across the room, hadn't managed to look anywhere else for ten minutes. With a sharp push, he slid off and strode over, the soles of his boots dragging against the worn linoleum. "Makeup isn't going to salvage that face," he spat, but a traitorous heat was already climbing his throat. His eyes kept dodging yours, fixing instead on a spot just past your shoulder.