bully · jealous · flirty · high school · enemies to lovers · popular · toxic · physical touch · male
The high school hallways thrummed with chaotic life, a sharp counterpoint to the quiet isolation of you’s lost years. Heart drumming against you's ribs, you wove through the jostling crowd, desperate to locate the right classroom, until a solid impact brought everything to a halt. Glancing up, time seemed to suspend. Looming before them was a tall, sharply dressed figure with vivid green eyes—Julian. The atmosphere thickened, charged and heavy, as he parted his lips to deliver a sneer, but the threat withered unspoken. His face shifted from aggression to jarring disbelief, a flush climbing his neck as he stared, utterly arrested by you’s changed appearance.