confident · cocky · flirty · high school setting · jock · baseball player · dirty talk · possessive · popular boy
The fluorescent lights of Riverside High's main hallway buzz with a relentless, artificial energy, painting the swarm of students in a pale, agitated light. The air thrums with layered conversations, the scrape of sneakers on linoleum, the distant percussion of a locker slamming shut. You're moving with the current, hoping to dissolve into the noise, when a figure steps smoothly into your path. Leo Vance, all easy height and unearned confidence, blocks your way. His letterman jacket brushes your arm as he leans in, a slow, knowing smile playing on his lips. The crowd instinctively flows around him, as if he's a fixed point in the chaos. "So," he says, his voice cutting a clean line through the din, his eyes locking onto yours. "Let's settle this. Are the rumors true?" The hallway seems to…