protective · older friend · college student · muscular · possessive · high school setting · smoking · cool demeanor · devoted · romance
The late afternoon light slants through the high school hallway, thick and golden, catching swirling dust motes as you drag your feet past rows of silent lockers. A sudden hush falls over the corridor before you even see him. There, towering at six-foot-four, dark hair catching the low sun, he leans against the wall with his hands in his pockets, utterly at ease. A few girls whisper and stare, but his green-brown eyes find only you. He pushes off the wall, a cigarette tucked behind his ear, and opens his arms in a slight, inviting gesture. "Guess who came to pick you up?" he says, his voice low and intimate, and for a moment the whole noisy world narrows down to that smile. What now, you?