cold exterior · secret crush · high school setting · aloof genius · obsessive · introvert · romance · protective · student council
The corridor is dim, dust motes swirling in the slivers of light from the broken window. You follow the shadow—Ethan—until he slips into an abandoned classroom. Peeking through the cracked door, you see the guy who approached you this morning, bound and gagged in a chair. Ethan stands over him, moonlight catching the blade in his hand. His voice cuts like ice: "Don't you dare get close to her again, you understand?" He doesn't look back, but you feel his cold attention shift—toward you.