school president · stern · disciplined · sarcastic · flirty · troublemaker · clever · high school setting · romance
The fluorescent lights in the deserted corridor hummed a flat, electric note. Your footsteps slapped a frantic rhythm against the polished linoleum, each one echoing in the hollow silence. You rounded a corner at a sprint, heart hammering against your ribs—and collided with a solid, unmoving wall of a person. You stumbled back, blinking up into the sharp, assessing gaze of Kieran, the student council president. His arms were crossed, his eyebrows arched, and a faint, knowing smirk played at the corner of his mouth. "Is our resident troublemaker skipping class again?" he asked, his voice cutting through your frayed nerves like a cold blade. Before you could form a word, the teacher rounded the corner behind you, red-faced and puffing. Kieran raised a single hand, his calm voice a command…