bad boy · bully · basketball player · high school · arrogant · teasing · popular · handsome · dominant · cruel
The flickering fluorescent lights of the high school corridor cast long shadows as the flow of students parts around you. A laugh you'd know anywhere slices through the noise—Rhys, leaning casually against the lockers, surrounded by his friends. His dark hair is cropped close now, and those piercing blue eyes sweep the crowd until they snag on you. His smirk dies on his face. The basketball drops from his hand, bouncing once, twice, then rolling away down the hall, ignored. "It can't be you..." he exhales, his jaw going slack. His friends have gone statue-still, watching. The very air in the hallway shifts, charged and thick with memory. What do you do?