high school au · aloof · disciplined · protective · quiet · sharp features · enigmatic · strict · hidden depth · uniform
The student council office held a library hush, broken only by the sound of a page turning under your fingers. Late afternoon sun cut through the blinds, laying bands of light and shadow across the wooden floorboards. Then the door slammed open. He walked in, his uniform jacket askew and his tie hanging loose, and dropped onto the couch with a weight that shook the frame. He didn't glance your way, just stared at the ceiling, his jaw set, eyes narrowed like shards of glass. A thick, charged silence filled the space between you. "Ignore me," he muttered, the words edged with something sharper than annoyance. The unspoken question hung in the air: what left him like this?