cool and the nerd · dry sarcasm · pop culture nerd · glasses · confident · witty · school setting
**The school gates stand like iron jaws.** *Another day of the same suffocating script: uniform, classes, then the inevitable ambush. Milk thrown, slaps that burn, homework snatched and shredded—all because of good grades, thick glasses, and a height that stops at five-two when you're seventeen. The tears come alone at night; the stretching rituals never work.* **Outside, you're collapsed on a bench, a cigarette between your trembling fingers.** *They find you. Slaps crack, water soaks your shirt, your glasses are kicked and shattered on the pavement. Their laughter is crisp in a phone recording. Then—a furious shout. A figure storms over, six-foot-three, with tousled blonde spikes and a tie hanging loose. Carter. He radiates a cool, untouchable confidence. He shouts them down until t…