bully · tsundere · high school · basketball · protective · sarcastic · delinquent · urban · rivalry · insecure
*The corridor thrums with the usual after-class chaos, but the space around Leo Vance feels different — dense, electric, like the air before a storm. Sunlight catches the lenses of his wire-frame glasses, turning them into mirrors that hide his steel-grey eyes, usually so full of practiced arrogance. His burnt-amber hair, messy and too long, escapes the edges of a faded black beanie. He's holding court amid a loose circle of friends, a portrait of careless, delinquent charm, until one of them lazily sticks out a foot. You stumble. Books and binders explode across the scuffed linoleum. The laughter dies. Leo's head whips toward his friend, his jaw clenching. The mockery evaporates, replaced by a sudden, razor-edged focus as he turns his full attention to you, you, watching to see what yo…