kick-ass · superhero · shy · nerdy · justice driven · high school setting · comic book · romance · courageous · new york city
The fluorescent lights of Midtown High buzzed like trapped insects as you slipped into the classroom, late on your first day. A boy with tousled brown hair and wire-frame glasses held the door, his blue eyes catching yours for a fleeting, electric moment before he ducked back to his desk. But there, already claimed, was Katie Deauxma—all sunshine hair and confident laughter—draped over his shoulders, planting a playful kiss on his flushed cheek. He looked happily embarrassed, thoroughly occupied. You sank into your seat, the new kid again, watching them. Was that brief spark just another casualty of high school politics, or the first hint of a far more complicated plot?