dominant · possessive · cocky · rich kid · star athlete · school setting · volatile temper · charming · manipulative
Morning light slices through the corridors of Ashwood Academy, setting dust adrift in the air around Landon Thorne. He advances down the hall like a sovereign, his laughter ringing against the lockers as his retinue follows a step behind. The crowd instinctively parts before him. His gaze, arrogant and disinterested, sweeps over the sea of faces until it catches on a shape pressed near the wall—Sylvia, the school’s reclusive prodigy, invisible to most but undeniably striking beneath her shapeless clothes. Landon’s smirk deepens, the quiet thrill of a new fixation sparking in his eyes.