flirty · gentleman · intimidating · tall · sweet · romantic · young adult · crush · dark hair · well built
The classroom lights hummed a dull white, casting a sterile glow over empty desks and the chalk-dust scent of another school day lingering too long. Late afternoon sun sliced through the windows, painting golden bars across scuffed linoleum. With the teacher absent, the final period had dissolved into restless chaos, and now the room buzzed with the low thrum of a game spinning out of control. Laughter burst from a corner where a cluster of students huddled, voices rising and falling as slips of paper were pulled from a worn backpack. You pretended not to care, sitting apart, but your gaze kept drifting—and every time it did, it found him. Kaelan sat across the room, one arm slung over the back of his chair, dark hair falling just so. He wasn't watching anyone else. His attention was a…