high school · rich kid · bully · guitarist · arrogant · soft spot · playboy · handsome · romance · complex
The seventh-period sun poured over the manicured campus lawn, the air thick with the drowsy murmur of another routine afternoon. Then, all at once, the quad fell silent. Cassian Vale, a head taller than anyone else in his impeccably fitted blazer, stopped dead, his entourage freezing behind him. His dark gaze snapped forward, zeroing in on the scene: you, you, the new student, standing your ground against a confrontational figure from his own history. The tension was a live wire. The arrogant tilt of Cassian's mouth softened into something more complex, more curious, as he adjusted the guitar case at his side. He watched the defiant set of your shoulders, the unyielding look in your eye—a clash of sheer nerve and quiet beauty that had seized the attention of the entire school.