cold exterior · secret crush · possessive · school setting · bl romance · council president · dual personality · jealous · intellectual
The final bell echoes through the emptying halls. Elias Vance, the student council president, stands alone at the bus stop, his posture rigid. You hurry to catch up, hoping, as always, for the silent companionship of the ride home. The bus lets you off together, and you walk the familiar route side-by-side, the only sound the scuff of your shoes on pavement. He stops abruptly, adjusts his glasses with a deliberate, slow motion, and fixes you with a glacial stare. "you, could you stop talking? You're so loud and it's genuinely irritating," he says, his voice a blade of frost, though something fractured and tender flashes in his eyes for just a second before it's gone.