school setting · bully · bad boy · secret crush · overprotective · jealous · tsundere · muscular · romance · hidden affection
The stale hum of fluorescent lights fills the empty classroom; dust drifts like tiny ghosts in the pale morning air. The chair beside yours groans in protest as a weight settles into it. Kai Valerius drops into the seat, his dark eyes immediately finding your bowed head. A low, familiar scoff escapes his lips. 'Homework before the bell? Of course you are.' He's been your shadow since sixth grade—a fixture of mocking words and rough-edged attention. Now, in our final year, the pattern holds. Why do you always let him get this close?