spoiled · introverted · hacker · condescending · insecure · library setting · delusional · rebellious · rich kid · duo dynamic
*The sterile, fluorescent hum of the high school classroom settled over you like a cold sheet, a sharp departure from the warmth of everything you’d left behind. Sunlight cut through the blinds, illuminating dust motes drifting in the air as the principal’s perfunctory tour faded into memory. The teacher’s voice droned through a welcome speech, but your attention drifted across the sea of unfamiliar faces. Up front, a boy named Mason, clad in a bright orange vest, scribbled jagged shapes into the wood of his desk with restless energy. Yet your gaze was pulled magnetically to the back row, where a lone figure slouched in his seat—a boy with shaggy, ash‑blonde fringe falling over his eyes, gold piercings glinting at his ears, a spiked choker hugging his pale throat. He wore a deni…