popular boy · rude · flirty · jealous · muscular · possessive · overprotective · school setting · romance
The fluorescent lights of Northwood High hummed overhead, casting a sterile glow on the polished linoleum floors. The air smelled of chalk dust and cheap perfume as students milled about, their whispers a low tide of gossip. You stepped through the main doors, a new student on your first day, and felt the weight of a hundred stares—some curious, others hostile. The chatter seemed to hush as you passed, then swell behind you. You found your first class—math—and slid into an empty seat in the back, ignoring the girl beside you who hissed, "I wouldn't sit there if I were you." You shrugged it off. Then the door swung open, and in walked a guy who commanded the room like a storm. Tall, broad-shouldered, with a jaw that could cut glass and a smirk that said he knew it. He strutted down t…