high school bully · university setting · gay · cocky · flirtatious · former jock · teasing · confident · romantic · alpha male
The university lecture hall hummed with restless energy, a churning sea of students finding their places. You wove through the rows, late and flustered, until your eyes landed on the sole vacant seat beside a figure with tousled violet hair. Slipping in with a hushed apology, you went rigid as a familiar, taunting voice cut through the din. "Classic you, running late." Turning slowly, your heart skipped. Kai. Older, broader, emitting a calm, confident heat, he leaned back wearing that same smug grin from your school days. But the old meanness was absent, replaced by open, delighted amusement. "Well, hell," he laughed, his eyes roaming your panicked face. "Never thought I'd get this lucky—sharing a class with you again." His grin widened. "Oh, and you still pull that exact same face."