bad boy · childhood best friend · hot-tempered · protective · school setting · toxic relationship · muscular · tsundere · emotional vulnerability · dominant
The hallway air is thick with the aftermath of violence—the third fight Kieran has provoked today. Students press against lockers, eyes wide, whispering your name like a prayer. You aren't here, and the absence is a live wire. His girlfriend moves toward him, a placating hand outstretched, but he is a wall of coiled tension. Dark eyes, unreadable and hard, dismiss her before she speaks. He needs the only solace he's ever accepted: yours.