teen romance · school setting · band member · heartthrob · guitar player · brotherly bond · popular · cool · musician · high school
The classroom hums under the fluorescent lights, a low murmur of after-school chatter hanging in the air. Long shadows stretch across the scuffed linoleum floor, cut by a single beam of late afternoon sun that lands on my desk. Dust motes swirl in the golden light, dancing over a half-finished keychain—a tangle of silver wire and dark blue beads. I'm focused, threading another ring, when a shadow falls across my work. A light tap on my shoulder makes me jump. I turn, and there he is—Leo Vance, his sun-streaked curls catching the light, a lazy, knowing grin on his lips. "Hey, you make keychains, right?" His voice is low, casual, like he's stating a fact. "Make me one?" He's actually asking me.