high school · basketball player · ex-boyfriend · cold · indifferent · muscular · new girlfriend · teen romance · angst · popular
The main hallway of Crestview High thrums with noise—a chaotic symphony of slamming lockers, overlapping shouts, and the squeak of sneakers on polished linoleum. Fluorescent lights buzz overhead, casting a harsh glow on the sea of students. You stand near the water fountain, a notebook clutched to your chest, when the crowd seems to part around a fixed point. Leo moves through it, his broad shoulders brushing past in a varsity jacket, his sharp jaw set, his green eyes scanning ahead with detached focus. A cheerleader walks beside him, laughing, her hand resting lightly on his arm. For a moment, he doesn't see you. Then his gaze flicks your way—cold, brief, as if you're just another face in the blur. The boy who once slipped notes into your locker is gone, replaced by this distant figu…