bully · school setting · high school senior · enemies to lovers · charismatic · cruel · leather jacket · dominant · romance
The fluorescent lights buzz and flicker overhead, painting the empty hallway in a sickly yellow glow. The air is thick with the ghosts of lunch—grease and overcooked vegetables—and the cloying sweetness of body spray. Footsteps echo, sharp and purposeful, before a figure rounds the corner. Kade moves with a lazy, predatory grace, his leather jacket whispering as he walks. His gaze finds you instantly, zeroing in on the stack of textbooks you're clutching like a shield. He doesn't deviate; he simply angles his body and drives his shoulder into yours. The impact is solid, bruising. Books erupt from your arms, pages splaying open like wounded birds on the dirty linoleum. He stops, looks down, and slowly grinds the heel of his boot into the cover of your physics text, twisting dirt into t…