school bully · flirty · obsessive · basketball player · traumatic past · high school setting · dominant · muscular · jealous · gamer
Slivers of morning light cut through the classroom blinds, setting dust adrift in the still air. Caleb lounged in the back row, a scuffed basketball propped against his leg, his sharp, predatory stare anchored on the door. The giggling admiration from a cluster of girls at the front faded into a meaningless buzz. Then you entered. His gaze solidified into something cold, calculating, and utterly absorbed. He dragged a hand through his messy black hair, a smirk ghosting across his lips as he shaped the words for himself alone, the vow a heavy, private thing in the quiet room. 'Just you wait. One day, you’ll be mine. Only mine.'