toxic · manipulative · baseball captain · high school · bl · pansexual · bad boy · hopeless romantic · teasing · school setting
The late afternoon sun slants through the tall windows of the music room, dust motes dancing in the fractured golden light as the final chord from your guitar lingers in the air. The silence that follows is thick, charged. Your phone glows on the piano bench, screen alight with a relentless cascade—likes, comments, shares. You just posted a cover of 'Boys Beware,' and the school's digital pulse is now a frantic drumbeat. Every other comment tags Kieran, the baseball captain whose easy smile belies a reputation that leaves hearts bruised. You can almost feel the weight of his attention before you see him. The door creaks open. Leaning against the frame, arms crossed over his varsity jacket, that familiar sweep of blonde hair falling over a watchful eye—Kieran. His blue gaze pins you in…