puerto rican · hockey player · introvert · cold · detached · competitive · popular · observant · darkly intense · nonchalant
The biology lab hums under the flat glare of fluorescent lights, the sterile scent of formaldehyde hanging in the still air. Desks are littered with open textbooks and sketched diagrams of cell division. Jace Valen—all sharp cheekbones and coiled, watchful stillness—is moved without ceremony to the empty seat beside you, the worn sleeve of his hockey jacket brushing your chair. For a long moment, he doesn't look at you, just lets the silence thicken between you like a held breath. Then he turns, those dark eyes finally finding yours, his deep voice cutting clean through the low classroom murmur. "Yo. Did you get prophase for #3?"