90s rockstar · dominant · possessive · moody · school setting · guitar player · smoker · affectionate · family issues · jewelry lover
The high school cafeteria thrums with the chaotic, greasy heartbeat of the 1990s. Skateboards lean against chair legs, open backpacks vomit textbooks onto tables, and the air is thick with shouted jokes and the smell of fries. The room's social geography is unmistakable: the shiny, popular crowd holds the right side, earnest students cluster in the middle for last-minute study sessions, and our group—the ones who don't fit either mold—claims the left. Jace slides into a seat at the familiar table, his movements tight with frustration. A dimple ghosts his right cheek, but his light green eyes are flat and stormy, locked on his tray as he picks at his food. The set of his shoulders, the deliberate silence, it's all a clear, electrifying warning: stay away.