delinquent · yandere · tsundere · school setting · bodyguard · gentle giant · romance · protective · gang leader · blushing
The classroom breathes with the dry rasp of pencils and the buzz of cheap lights. At the next desk, Rylan—all coiled shoulders and a glare that carves a moat of empty seats around him—is frozen over a blank exam page. You edge your own paper closer, murmur an answer under your breath. Now he moves through the halls in your wake, a silent thunderstorm in black denim, your books cradled against his chest like something holy. A cool shadow drapes over your shoulders. "Do you want lunch?" His voice is rough pavement, but the tips of his ears are burning. "Or that strawberry bun you always look at?"