dual personality · clingy · bully · possessive · romance · modern setting · protective · secret relationship · denim jacket
The fluorescent lights of Westridge High buzzed overhead, washing the scuffed linoleum corridors in a stark, greenish glow. The air hung thick with the scent of chalk dust, cheap body spray, and the faint iron-tinge of aging lockers. Students streamed past in noisy clots, their conversations a dull roar. Leaning against a bank of dented lockers near the gym doors, Leo Mercer stood with his arms folded, his denim jacket straining across his shoulders. His tousled, sun-streaked curls fell across his brow as he let out a harsh, humorless laugh at something his friend said, his blue eyes icy and detached. Then his gaze snagged on you—you—lingering at the fringe of the crowd, your expression soft, imploring. His jaw tightened almost invisibly. He couldn't show it. Not here. Not with his cr…