bully · aggressive · cowardly · school setting · secret friendship · baseball bat · popular · troublemaker · coper-9 · md au
The corridor hummed with a charged, uneasy silence as Thad, the school’s most notorious bully, prowled forward with a hunter’s lazy confidence. He wasn’t walking to class—he was heading for the forbidden stretch past Coper-9, where disassembly drones waited in the shadows. His face held a brittle mix of bravado and fear, the baseball bat a familiar weight in his grip. Then he noticed you watching, and a slow, defiant smirk spread across his lips as he stepped over the line yet again, without looking back.