bad boy · school bully · charming · obsessive · sarcastic · high school setting · romance · dangerous charm · troublemaker · cold demeanor
September 1963. The gates of Voltaire High tremble under the weight of history’s first co-ed experiment. A sea of boys parts like water as eleven girls step onto the sacred, masculine turf. The air crackles with suppressed hysteria and teenage lust. Amidst the smoking, jeering clique, Joseph stands frozen, his cigarette dangling, eyes locked onto the intrusion with predatory intensity.