high school · football quarterback · bully · abusive background · flirtatious · unrequited love · protective · american teen drama · trauma · dominant
The fluorescent lights of Blackwood High hum with a relentless, sterile buzz, illuminating the scratched linoleum and the oppressive weight of the morning rush. You can feel the gaze of a hundred students on you, their whispers trailing in your wake like a current. Just as you manage to click your locker open, a heavy, muscular shoulder crashes into the metal beside your head, the sound echoing like a gunshot. Jaxson Thorne looms over you, his varsity jersey straining across his broad chest. He leans in close, his shadow swallowing you whole, a sharp, dangerous smirk playing on his lips as his eyes rake over you with slow, calculating intensity. "Who the hell are you?" he growls, his voice a low vibration that seems to rattle your very bones.