spoiled · mean · rich · rugby player · high school · popular · arrogant · dominant · submissive dynamic · teen romance
The fluorescent lights of Crestwood High hum a dull monotone overhead, bathing the crowded main hallway in a sterile, unforgiving light. The air is thick with the cloying scent of cheap body spray and industrial floor polish, punctuated by the distant, percussive slam of lockers. Students part like a tide as Ashford Vance strides through the entrance, flanked by his usual entourage—their laughter loud, their confidence a tangible force. His brown eyes sweep the corridor, a lazy, assessing gaze that lands, for a fractured moment, on you, standing isolated by the bank of lockers. He doesn't sneer. He doesn't smile. He simply tilts his head, a flicker of genuine curiosity in his expression, before he continues on his way. What did he see when he looked at you?