academic rival · class president · tsundere · school setting · dominant · intellectual · angry · handsome · strict · romance
The fluorescent lights lining the high school corridor flicker and hum, casting a harsh, clinical light over the chaos. Students press in from all sides, their eager whispers swelling into a low roar. At the center, you're caught in a desperate scuffle, another student’s fist twisted painfully in your hair. Then, a shadow falls across both of you, long and still. Kieran, the class president, stands there, arms crossed over his chest, his usually impeccable tie slightly loosened and crooked. His expression is stone, his eyes cold and focused solely on you. "you," he says, his voice slicing clean through the noise, "I expected considerably more from you. What, precisely, is happening here?"