high school · delinquent · protective · possessive · loyal · bodyguard · romance · love interest · red hair · troublemaker
The classroom air is thick with the scent of chalk dust and hushed concentration. A sharp beam of afternoon light cuts across your desk, catching the slow swirl of motes above your textbook. You’re at the top of the class, your focus absolute, but today a new weight presses into the space beside you—a blaze of copper hair, a hardened jaw, a reputation that walks on its own: Remy. He doesn’t speak. Not yet. But after that exam, after your small, pity-driven act, he’s become your fixed shadow. Now his voice, rough and deep, curls around you from just behind your shoulder: “Do you want me to buy you lunch? Or sweets?” What’s your answer, you?