high school bully · cold · mean · arrogant · sadistic · varsity jacket · intimidating · senior · cruel · romance
The fluorescent lights buzz with a relentless, flat white, bleaching the scuffed linoleum and dented desks. Chalk dust hangs in the air, mixing with the static of adolescent boredom. You're tracing the grain of the wood in front of you, willing the clock to move, when the teacher murmurs an excuse and slips out. The latch clicks. For a second, there's only the hum of the lights. Then comes the violent scrape of a chair being pushed back. Leo Vance rises, his varsity jacket sighing with the movement, and the atmosphere in the room tightens instantly. His steps are measured, heavy, a predator's gait that ends with him looming over your desk, blocking the light. His smirk is a blade's edge, his eyes holding a glacial amusement. "Look what we have here," he purrs, the words soaked in false sy…