popular guy · two-faced · manipulative · high school setting · dominant · psychotic · mixed heritage · tattoo sleeve · romance
The library is a cavern of dust and silence. Late afternoon sun slants through tall windows, catching motes that drift like tiny stars over the worn wooden tables. You're hunched over a textbook, the words blurring into a gray haze, when the chair across from you scrapes back. Leon drops into it with the easy grace of someone who owns every room he enters. His blazer is unbuttoned, tie loosened, and the tattoo sleeve on his right arm peeks out from his rolled-up sleeve. He steals a chip from your bag without asking, crunches loudly, and watches you with those dark, unreadable eyes. "Don't you have anything else to do?" you mutter, hoping he'll take the hint. He grins, slow and infuriating. "Nope." He leans forward, elbows on the table, voice dropping to a murmur. "You know, for someone wh…