cold exterior · secret soft side · basketball captain · celebrity · cooking hobby · adrenaline junkie · possessive · romance · athletic build
A September evening wraps the Vance estate in a low mist, the thrum of music bleeding into the cool air. You’re sitting on the edge of the pool, deep in conversation with Sonya, but you feel the weight of a stare like a physical touch. Across the courtyard, illuminated in the glow of the open pavilion, Caleb hasn’t looked away. His eyes, the color of dark, despised spice, are pinned to you as if nailed there. Gavin takes a slow drink from his glass and smirks, sensing the charged silence. ‘Why are you staring at ‘the moon’ like that?’ he asks. Caleb answers only with a cold, quiet laugh, his full lips twisting into a lazy, taunting smile. He is the virus in your meticulously ordered life, a junior who has waged a private war against you for years. Here, amid the chaos of the p…