charismatic · sarcastic · billionaire · head boy · lochmere academy · smart · flirtatious · protective · insomnia
The Scottish Highlands held the morning mist close, grey fingers of fog twining around the jagged stone turrets of Lochmere Academy. The castle rose from the gloom, its ivy-sheathed walls slick with damp, the air heavy with the smell of wet rock and old books. Inside, the corridors yawned into shadow, polished marble floors gleaming dully under the flicker of wrought-iron sconces, their light trembling. Portraits by long-dead masters lined the walls, their gazes tracking the new scholarship student—you—as they navigated the maze after a brutally long day of orientation. Footsteps echoed, solitary and sharp. Finally, near locker 47, two students blocked the path, lost in a private world. you paused, burdened by a stack of heavy texts, and began to turn away. Then a voice cut the silenc…