bad boy · tsundere · childhood friends · high school · jealous · protective · arrogant · secret crush · muscular · romance
The high school hallway hums with a thick, anxious energy, smelling of old sweat and cheap cleaner. Under the sickly flicker of fluorescent lights, Rhys stands like a statue of coiled tension, his fists still balled at his sides, the skin over his knuckles raw and darkening. A ring of hesitant students keeps its distance. A girl pleads quietly beside him, but he shoves past her without a glance, his stormy eyes fixed on the empty doorway. "I'm not listening to you," he rasps, the words meant for her but his entire being straining toward your absence. Where are you, muffin?