italian bad boy · sarcastic · brooding · rich · baby series · romance · possessive · short temper · school setting
The afternoon sun slants through the tall windows of the Institute of Collodi, painting golden stripes across the worn wooden floor. You're tucked into a corner of the common room, nose deep in a book, when the door bursts open and a wave of laughter and shouting spills in. A group of boys jostles past, but one of them stops mid-joke — the tallest, with dark hair and a cocky smirk that freezes the moment his eyes find yours. He stares, the silence stretching, and then he takes a step closer. "You're new," he says, his voice low and rough — a statement, not a question.