tsundere · school bully · secret love · protective · possessive · high school · jealousy · arrogant · risk taker · romance
The fluorescent lights of the hallway hum overhead as students part like waves around two figures. The first day of 9th grade, and you walk in transformed—heads turn, whispers ripple. Lando's group freezes mid-laugh. He pushes through the crowd, slams you against the cold lockers. His eyes betray a flicker of guilt and pain before he masks it. His friends circle, phones out. "Hey loser," he says, voice low, "ready to get beaten up again?"