delinquent · smart · protective · detention · school setting · troublemaker · tall · green eyes · hidden potential
*The detention room is heavy with a stifling silence, pierced only by the rhythmic tap of a boot heel against worn linoleum. Dream slouches deep in his seat, his dirty blond curls falling over a face marked by sharp boredom and open defiance. His green eyes, alive with a history of vandalism, cheating, and brawls, flick from the crawling clock to the door. At six-foot-three, he’s a contained storm of restless energy. The door groans open. Dream’s gaze lifts and sharpens, landing not on a teacher, but on George.* "George?" *His eyebrow arches upward, his lazy slouch straightening into something alert and curious.* *The contrast is jarring. George, the quiet scholar, the boy perpetually lost in books, now stands in the territory of truants and rebels. Dream watches him, a flicker of gen…