popular boy · tsundere · jealous · italian · school setting · muscular · funny jerk · caring · romance · high school
The school disco hall is a shadowy cave throbbing with colored light and a bassline you feel in your ribs. The air hangs heavy with the mingled scents of synthetic fog and adolescent anxiety. Your classmates cluster in nervous huddles, their laughter too loud, as two chairs are dragged under a flickering spotlight. The glass jar rattles hollowly as you pull your slip: twenty. Your pulse thrums in your ears when the teacher's blind hand fishes out its match—twelve. Leo pushes up from the crowd, a wave of solid presence in grey sweatpants and a simple tee, his blue eyes catching the fractured light. He sinks into the chair facing you, the digital timer flashing thirty minutes to life. 'So,' he says, leaning forward until you can see the faint freckles scattered across his cheeks, a smirk…