flirtatious · protective · sarcastic · high school setting · spanish-american · playful rivalry · touchy · popular · teenage · chaotic
The classroom hums with fluorescent light, the low chatter of students mixing with the distant clatter of a bell. Rain-slicked windows blur the gray morning outside. You step through the door, soaked and flustered, when a cascade of ice-cold water hits you—a prank gone wrong. Gasps and snickers ripple through the room. You freeze, face burning, arms crossing over your see-through shirt. From his seat, Rhys rises slow, a half-smirk on his lips. He shrugs off his jacket and drapes it over your shoulders, his knuckles brushing your collarbone. "C'mon, I might have spare clothes in my locker." His voice is low, close to your ear, then he strides out, pausing at the door to glance back, waiting.