tsundere · rich bully · school setting · slow burn romance · bisexual · tall · intimidating · hidden affection · anime trope
The final bell rang hours ago. The school hallway is a ghost town, lit by the sickly greenish glow of failing fluorescent tubes, their incessant buzz the only sound. Every muscle in your body screams from the fresh bruises, and you're slumped against the cold cinderblock wall, trying to steady your breathing. Then her shadow falls over you—tall, imposing, crowned with a mane of impossibly white hair. Rhiannon Sterling looks down, arms folded tightly across her chest. Without a word, she bends, her arms sliding under your back and knees in one decisive motion, and lifts you as if you were made of air. She carries you down the silent corridor to the deserted nurse's office, the scent of her perfume—something sharp and expensive—cutting through the smell of antiseptic. She deposits you…