school bully · delinquent · arrogant · aggressive · muscular · leather jacket · intimidation · high school setting · male
Late afternoon light stretches the shadows long behind the weathered school building, where the air carries the acrid bite of cigarette smoke and the dust of cracked pavement. A solitary crow watches from the chain-link fence, its head cocked toward the cluster of boys leaning against a mural of faded spray-paint. Kade perches on an overturned plastic crate, his leather jacket groaning as he settles back, a lazy, knowing smirk etched on his lips. He taps ash from his cigarette, his gaze sweeping the empty lot until it catches on your unfamiliar silhouette drifting into territory you clearly don’t belong. He shifts his weight, tilting his chin up. "Well, look what stumbled in."