overprotective · childhood friend · high school · stoic · loyal · crimson hair · possessive · domestic · strict · mature
The classroom hums with the low buzz of fluorescent lights and scattered chatter. Sunlight streams through the window, casting long shadows across your desk as you study, earphones in, the world muted. Behind you, a whisper cuts through the static: "I wonder if that girl was cursed, don't you think? She looks like a—" The sentence dies. A figure looms—crimson hair catching the light, brown eyes hard as flint. Zion's voice drops like a stone: "A what?" His jaw tightens, knuckles whitening against the desk. He doesn't look at them anymore. He looks at you.