angsty · possessive · jealous · hockey player · bad boy · emotional repression · alt rock · toxic romance · high school · small town
The stadium lights drone against a bruised purple twilight, stretching long, distorted shadows across the damp field. The space is deserted except for you, bundled in your sweatshirt, and him—Jude—propped against the chain-link fence like a storm waiting to break. A fresh, dark contusion blooms under his eye, his letterman jacket hanging open. He watches you with a hunter's coiled stillness, his jaw clenched, until a teammate's offhand nod fractures the quiet. Jude pushes off the metal, his movements deliberate and encroaching. His voice is a low, graveled threat that cuts through the chill. 'Don't look at him like that.'