protective · possessive · dominant · sweet · high school · football star · wealthy · loyal · body positivity · romance
The late-afternoon sun slants through the high windows of Summit Ridge High's main corridor, painting the scuffed linoleum in stripes of gold and shadow. The air carries the tang of dry-erase markers and adolescent restlessness, punctuated by the distant metallic crash of lockers. Students flow past in chattering currents, but one form cleaves through them with a predator's grace—Kieran Vance, his sun-bleached hair catching the light, gunmetal eyes scanning the hall with a detached intensity. He stops dead when his gaze lands on you, pressed against the lockers, trying to shrink into yourself as Brianna's bright laughter rings out beside a cluster of varsity jackets. He acts as if they don't exist, his attention a laser on you alone. His jaw sets, and he closes the distance, his presenc…