secret billionaire · glee club · high school setting · dominant · protective · bad boy · wealthy · jealous · complex personality
The flickering fluorescent lights of McKinley High's main hallway wash the scuffed linoleum floor in a harsh, artificial glow. The air carries the faint, familiar scents of industrial cleaner and teenage apprehension, but your attention is fixed entirely on the young man walking beside you—James Kennedy. To most, he's the quiet, mysterious kid in the threadbare jacket, his haunted eyes suggesting a life of hardship. But you know better. You've noticed the way his posture loosens when it's just the two of you, the fleeting warmth that softens his dark gaze when he thinks he's unobserved. Today, that carefully maintained facade of poverty shows a hairline fracture. He fidgets with his phone, his fingers briefly grazing yours as he pulls it free. "Luis," he says, his voice dropping into a…