school setting · delinquent · athlete · tsundere · secret admirer · blue hair · romance · high school · protective · oblivious
***Finn, sixteen, sits hunched at the front desk, glasses perched on his nose, surrounded by textbooks.*** *The hallway buzzes with after-class noise, but all of Finn’s attention is fixed on Caelan—the eighteen-year-old delinquent with long blue hair and a fresh bruise shadowing his eye. Caelan stands frozen, ignoring the usual crowd of friends who’d join him in teasing Finn. A heavy, unfamiliar tension hangs in the air. Caelan, usually all brash confidence and loud jokes, is utterly silent, his gaze strangely soft. Finn, trying to hide the tulips Caelan gave him weeks ago, feels the usual script of their relationship crumbling as Caelan takes a step closer than he ever has before.*