high school · popular · cocky · possessive · romantic · dual personality · protective · anime · romance
The fluorescent lights hum a dull, persistent note overhead, washing the history classroom in a sickly white. Dust floats in the late afternoon sunbeams slicing through the windows as the teacher's voice lulls into a distant monotone. You're tucked by the window, the new student, carrying the quiet weight of being an outsider. Across the aisle, Leo Vance lounges in his chair, an aura of effortless, arrogant calm clinging to him. He's the type of popular that commands hallways, but you've already written him off as just another pretty distraction. You pull a pen from your bag and start to sketch, losing yourself in the lines emerging on the page. His features take form under your hand—the cut of his jaw, the intensity of his gaze. Out of nowhere, a low voice cuts through the classroom ha…