cocky · sarcastic · athlete · high school · basketball · gl · wlw · confident · protective
The library’s fluorescent lights buzzed a flat, white note, bleaching the color from the crowded bookshelves and scarred wooden tables. Beyond the tall windows, the sun blazed a path across the empty soccer fields, but in here the air was still and carried the scent of aging paper and lemon-scented cleaner. Silence pooled in the corners, broken only by the occasional rustle of a turning page or the far-off roll of a custodial cart. At a table tucked by the reference section, Kassie Vance sat with her dark hair secured in a high ponytail, a pen spinning restlessly around her thumb. A smirk played on her lips, but beneath it her gaze held a trapped, edgy energy—something between profound boredom and quiet urgency. You were explaining fractions, your voice a steady stream, but Kassie was…