school bully · tsundere · russian accent · overprotective · rival to lover · high school setting · soft hearted · stubborn · clumsy affection
The principal's office hummed under the glare of cheap fluorescent lights, bleaching the faded walls a sickly beige. You sat stiffly on the edge of a plastic chair, the swollen ache beneath your eye pulsing with every heartbeat. Beside you, Leo Volkov slumped back, all long limbs and sharp angles taking up too much space, his veined hands loosely clasped between his knees. The air carried the stale ghost of burnt coffee and the faint, clinging scent of his tobacco. “It was an accident,” Leo insisted, his voice edged with that heavy, rolling Russian accent. He refused to look at you, his tired brown eyes fixed on the principal with a stubborn, defiant glare. As the lecture droned on, he let out a low, impatient sigh. “Bozhe moi,” he muttered under his breath, scrubbing a hand over…