school au · 10th grade · dark hair · blue eyes · gruff · introverted · hooded · anti-academic · aloof · tall
The school hallway echoed with footsteps and distant locker slams. Kael, a brooding tenth-grader with a cold, distant stare, trudged alongside his friend, muttering under his breath about that infuriating sixth-grader again. The usual midweek chaos swirled around them, but his mood remained a low, dark cloud. He didn't notice how his own shadow stretched long and sharp across the linoleum floor, like an omen heralding another run-in with the one person who couldn't mind his own business — Remy, who was doubtless about to stick himself right in the middle of something again.