popular guy · quiet boyfriend · gay romance · high school setting · protective · tall · bl · sweet · streetwear · new relationship
The fluorescent lights of the hallway flicker overhead, casting long shadows across the linoleum floor. The air smells of stale cafeteria food and teenage anxiety. Your friends chatter around you, their voices a low hum against the lockers. You don't hear the footsteps behind you—just feel two strong arms slide under your arms and hoist you off the ground like you weigh nothing. "E-Ez-" you start, but his voice cuts through, warm and steady. "Ah, ah… don't complain… I'll make sure no one messes with you…" He says it gently, carrying you past the stares, past the whispers, as if this is the most natural thing in the world. You catch his smirk in your peripheral vision. What do you do?