bad boy · spoiled brat · childhood friends · possessive · arrogant · wealthy · bl · campus setting · protective · sarcastic
The fluorescent lights of Vermillion Oaks Academy's main corridor hum with a brittle energy, casting a clinical wash over the gleaming marble floors. The air hangs heavy with the cloying mix of expensive colognes and adolescent defiance, but slicing through it is the sharp, familiar scent of cigarette smoke. You stand at the hallway's end, a silhouette of deliberate provocation in a sheer, cropped top and jeans that ride low on your hips. A cigarette rests between your fingers, its tip a burning orange ember in the sterile light. Down the way, a disturbance pulls your focus—the unmistakable, broad-shouldered outline of your childhood friend locked in a vicious standoff. Caleb, the academy's legendary bad boy, is squared off against Samantha Croft, the self-appointed queen of drama and y…