bully · dual personality · protective · possessive · high school · romance · scarred · buff · loyal · affectionate
The flickering fluorescent light casts a sickly glow on the scuffed linoleum as the crash of a locker door reverberates through the empty hallway. Kieran's dark, messy hair shadows his eyes as he pulls his fist back, the sound of cracking plastic under his knuckles sharp in the silence. Behind him, his friends' laughter bounces off the tiled walls, a harsh and taunting echo. He turns, a slow, lazy smirk curling across his scarred face, and his gaze finds you standing alone at the corridor's end. For just a moment, the smirk softens at the edges. "You're not gonna start crying over this too, are you?"