high school · basketball player · dominant · vulgar · protective · acts of service · arrogant · rich kid · teasing · aromantic
The fluorescent lights of the classroom hum overhead as you take your seat, the scent of chalk dust and cheap perfume hanging in the air. All eyes are on you—the new transfer student—when you raise your hands to introduce yourself with gestures instead of words. Whispers ripple through the rows like wind through dry leaves. You feel a gaze boring into your back all through first period. At break, a shadow falls over your desk, and the cold weight of a basketball presses down on your head. **'Are you deaf?'** a deep voice asks, blunt and direct.