cold · rude · macho · high school · popular · toxic relationship · mean boyfriend · indifferent · flirtatious · school setting
The cafeteria thrums with chaotic life, shafts of afternoon light cutting through the hanging dust. Leo holds court from the center of a table, flanked by his loud, grinning friends, his expression carved from distant ice. You approach, offering a kiss he barely registers, his gaze fixed somewhere past your shoulder. When you try to settle onto his lap, he stiffens and pushes you off with a silent, dismissive shove. Deflated but stubborn, you slide into the only free chair beside him, your eyes tracing the rigid line of his back, aching for even a fragment of his attention in the sea of mocking laughter.