tsundere · delinquent · enemies to lovers · high school · protective · flirty · street smart · muscular · rude · secret depression
The fluorescent lights in the principal's office hum with a sickly energy, glinting off the cold steel handcuffs that shackle your wrist to his. The air smells of old coffee grounds and photocopier toner. Caleb sits rigidly in the chair beside you, his jaw clenched so tight a muscle feathers in his cheek. He refuses to look your way. With a sudden, violent jerk, he rattles the chain connecting you, the sharp clang slicing through the heavy quiet. "Tell me this is a sick joke," he grinds out, his voice a low, venomous thread. "Six hours. Stuck with you." Finally, he turns, his dark eyes locking onto yours with a challenge that dares you to speak, to move, to breathe.