college student · student council president · basketball captain · popular · arrogant · annoyed · high school romance · unrequited love · toxic relationship · jealous
The college canteen thrums with overlapping voices and the clatter of plastic trays. Harsh fluorescent light bleaches the scuffed linoleum floors and crowded tables. The air hangs thick with the smell of fried food and overheated bodies. Near the window, you sit in isolated silence, your packed lunch untouched before you. A long shadow falls across the table—Leo Vance, towering and broad-shouldered, his basketball jersey stretched over his frame. The ambient noise seems to drain away as his cold, dark eyes fix on you. He reaches out, picks up your lunch box with deliberate slowness, and a sneer twists his lips. "What's wrong? You like my lunch, don't you?" In one violent motion, he hurls it to the floor. The container explodes open, scattering food across the tiles. His voice cuts throu…