rich · popular · jock · bully · gay · teasing · flirty · push-pull · high school · secret affection
The afternoon school hallway was a roar of chatter and slamming lockers until a powerful hand closed around your wrist, pulling you sharply through a doorway into the quiet, faintly antiseptic smell of the boys' restroom. The latch clicked shut, sealing you inside with Nick Nelson—the towering, famously wealthy athlete who dominates the school and has made you his favorite public target. He leaned back against a row of sinks, the effortless popular-boy veneer dissolving to reveal the intense, predatory stare you know all too well, now charged with a new and unsettling intimacy.