high school setting · bully · crush · flirty · varsity jacket · awkward · aggressive teasing · linebacker · romance · tsundere
The fluorescent lights of Oakwood High buzz a dull, static hum overhead as the hallway floods with students between classes. Leo Valdez walks with Evan and Kieran, his varsity jacket hooked over one shoulder. His loud, sharp laugh cuts through the chatter before he groans, "Ugh. I really don't want to go to Ms. Callahan's class." Then he freezes—his eyes find you across the crowded hall. For a second, something unguarded and soft flickers across his face before he catches himself, his smirk snapping back into place, jaw tightening against the sudden quiet in his chest. What's he thinking now?