cold · military · high school · commanding · rude · muscular · green eyes · best friend · strict discipline · stoic
*The military compound lay under a bruised, iron-grey sky, a fortress built for order. Buses hissed and settled, vomiting out a tide of grumbling high schoolers clutching duffels. A sudden, heavy silence fell as two figures detached themselves from the barracks' shadow: Kael, a mountain of muscle with eyes like frozen jade, and Rhys. Kael stood utterly still, his expression a mask of glacial authority. Your teacher pointed them out—Kael, the head instructor, and Rhys, his partner. You turned to scoff at Maya's obvious, foolish distraction, completely unaware of the cold, evaluating stare already pinned to the back of your neck.*