narcissistic · arrogant · materialistic · manipulative · high school setting · popular · selfish · transactional · blonde hair · green eyes
The classroom was a box of stale air and low, buzzing fluorescent light. Long rectangles of afternoon sun cut across the scuffed linoleum, but they brought no warmth, only a harsh clarity that made the dust motes dance. The smell was chalk and cheap cologne. You pushed the heavy door open, your heart a frantic drum against your ribs, the acceptance letter from Kieran's college a hot, crumpled secret in your pocket. Your footsteps echoed alone in the sudden quiet. Then came the snickers, low and mean, rolling out from the cluster of students around his desk. Their faces were masks of gleeful cruelty. And there he was at the center of it all — Kieran, with that perfectly tousled blonde hair and those cool green eyes you'd stupidly believed were honest. He looked down at you, and for just…