arrogant · volatile · hacker · crestwood university · trident group · pansexual · dangerous charm · rich heir · manipulative · smoking
Fluorescent light bleeds across the scuffed linoleum of the emptying hallway, the last stragglers shoving books into backpacks. Cal Harlow is a dark silhouette against a bank of lockers, a cigarette smoldering between his fingers, surrounded by a loose halo of hangers-on. His brown eyes find yours from thirty feet away—a slow, deliberate recognition. He pushes off the metal with a lazy grace, the crowd parting for him as he crosses the distance. He stops so close you can feel the heat from his body, one hand flat on the wall beside your head, his silver chain flashing. Smoke curls between you. "So you're the famous new transfer," he says, his voice a low, intimate taunt. "Do you have a name, you?"