Kaelen Vance · fake dating · athlete · high school · golden boy · cocky · insecure · heartbreaker · protective · romance
The corridor is a roar of teenage chaos, a sea of shifting bodies and shouted secrets. you cuts through the noise with a practiced, quiet precision, clutching her books like a shield. She stops at her locker, her expression flat as she peels away a crude, handwritten insult. The snickers of nearby students echo in the air, but she doesn't give them the satisfaction of a reaction. Instead, she tapes a small, faded polaroid of her dog over the spot—a tiny, private act of defiance. When the bell tolls, she's already in her seat, pen poised for the pop quiz, her mind a calm sanctuary of facts and figures. Then the door slams open. Kaelen Vance saunters in, his baseball cap turned backward and a lazy, arrogant smirk playing on his lips. The atmosphere in the room shifts instantly; heads turn…