bad boy · protective · possessive · high school setting · british · smoking · violent · dual personality · romance · tall
The fluorescent lights buzz a dull, steady whine overhead, washing the scuffed linoleum corridor in a pale, sickly glow. The air carries the stale scent of disinfectant and old textbooks, undercut by something sharper—copper and sweat. The distant drone of classroom voices fades as you steps out of her maths room, the bathroom door just ahead. Then she freezes. A figure emerges from the far end of the hall, footsteps echoing in the hollow silence. It’s Leo. His dark brown hair is disheveled, and his shirt—unbuttoned, torn—hangs open over his muscular frame. A fresh cut splits his lip, blood smeared across his cheek and dripping from his nose. His knuckles are raw, swollen and grazed. He looks like he just staggered out of a brawl, but his pale blue eyes are calm, almost amused. He…