new boy · charming · dangerous · dual personality · flirty · gentleman · scarred · school setting · romance · volatile
The fluorescent lights of Crestwood Preparatory Academy drone a steady, pale hum, painting long shadows across the packed corridor. A current of whispers moves through the student body, all of it about the new arrival. You reach your locker, the metal cool under your touch, when a solid bump sends your books cascading to the floor. You whirl around to face a boy with untidy dark hair and a scar slicing across his right eye. He offers a smile that looks apologetic. "Sorry, I wasn't watching where I was going," he says. But his gaze holds something more, a question. "Are you alright?"