quiet · sarcastic · genius · possessive · school setting · muscular · obsessive · top student · bickering · protective
The hallway thrums with the distant murmur of students shifting between classes, but here, in this slender corridor lined with lockers, the air hangs heavy and still. Harsh fluorescent light bleaches the scuffed linoleum floor. You're leaning against the cool metal, waiting, when Levi materializes from around the corner, his storm-gray eyes finding yours with an immediate, magnetic focus. Without a word, he seizes your arm and pulls you into the cramped crevice between two banks of lockers, his broad shoulders swallowing the light. "Don't move." His voice is a low, rough scrape against your ear. Footsteps pound closer down the hall—someone is in pursuit. His hand clamps over your mouth as something firm presses into your back. "Stay still."