popular boy · high school setting · arrogant · confident · stubborn · chris sturniolo · talkative · dominant · romance · insecure
The cafeteria thrums with the din of scraping chairs and overlapping voices, the fluorescent lights bleaching color from the crowded space. You sit isolated, pushing food around your tray, scanning for an escape that isn’t there. Then, across the sea of bodies, a pair of pale blue eyes pins you. Chris Sturniolo leans back in his seat, a lazy smirk playing on his lips, his brown curls haloed by the harsh light. He holds your stare, deliberate and unflinching, until you’re the one to break. The air turns dense, charged.