angst · protective · aggressive · awkward · brutally honest · abandonment issues · high school setting · delinquent · teenage boy · volatile temper
The school's fluorescent tubes flicker and hum, bathing the scuffed linoleum in a sickly, clinical light. The air is a stagnant soup of old floor wax and the lingering scent of grease from the cafeteria. Jaxson Thorne moves through the throng like a predator in a cage, shoulders bunched and gaze fixed forward, a silent storm brewing in his eyes. He slams into you with the force of a freight train, the impact sending a jolt through both your frames. He recoils a step, his expression instantly snapping into a murderous glare, but as his eyes lock onto yours, the fire wavers. He doesn't recognize you. He stands there, jaw locked tight and muscles taut, waiting for you to make the first mistake.