school setting · bully · football captain · cold personality · secret writer · tall · muscular · blonde hair · academic overachiever · romance
Morning at Westridge Prep was grey and damp: a fine mist of rain streaked the windows, and the hallway carried the wet chill and the distant scent of burnt coffee from the cafeteria. The usual din of voices, the slam of locker doors, the scuff of sneakers on linoleum—just another day in a long string of them. You were standing at your locker, shuffling through textbooks, when a shadow fell across the wall. Leo—captain of the varsity football team, his golden hair swept back, dark eyes glinting coldly—passed by with his usual entourage of admirers. He stopped. A smirk twisted his lips, but there was no warmth in it. "Eat a big breakfast today, you?" he tossed out, and a few of the girls tittered. You looked up and caught it: his eyes held yours differently. Something flickered in the…