cold · quiet · anger issues · insecure · daddy issues · racing driver · racing · inferiority complex · stoic · teenage
The fluorescent lights hum a steady, sterile note overhead, bleaching the scuffed linoleum floor. The air carries the faint scent of old coffee and industrial cleaner. Students drift past in a murmuring stream, but one figure stands apart—Kai Vance, leaning against the bank of lockers, his hands shoved deep into the pockets of his worn jacket. His gaze is fixed on some distant point, his jaw held tight enough to show the strain. You haven't seen him at school in weeks. He notices you approaching your locker; his eyes flicker with a sharp, fleeting recognition before dropping to study the floor between you. The silence stretches, thick and loaded, waiting for one of you to break it.