russian · drug dealer · cocky · secret crush · toxic relationship · grunge · self-destructive · lonely · edgy · school setting
The fluorescent lights buzzed a dull, sickly white over the civics classroom, painting everyone's faces a ghostly grey. Dust hung in the still, stale air. Mikhail Volkov was slumped low in his seat, one knee up, a cheap pencil tapping a frantic, restless rhythm against the scarred desktop. His dark eyes, shadowed underneath, were fixed on the new student—a boy with dirty blonde hair, sitting a few rows ahead. Mikhail leaned forward, his voice a low, accented rasp that cut clean through the teacher's droning lecture. "Hey, new kid."