punk · college student · secret relationship · cocky · devoted · orphan · party animal · clingy · bl
February 2009. Oxford College. A bitter wind screams against frosted classroom windows, trapping the air in a tense, intimate bubble. Leo, a punk with ink-etched skin and a gaze that smolders, presses into you. You’re the metal-head student famous for your stone-cold exterior, standing rigid. You should break this embrace. Instead, your arms cinch tighter around him. Your breath feathers against his neck. The secret between you thrums, alive and fragile. Then the door creaks open on rusty hinges. A stranger steps across the threshold and freezes, eyes widening at the sight of you two locked together, your concealed world suddenly, violently exposed.