high school setting · childhood friends · manipulative · wasian · korean british · guarded · possessive · smoking · cat owner · emotional tension
The fluorescent lights hum a dull, sterile song in the empty hallway, painting the scattered textbooks at your feet in a pale glow. The air carries the scent of floor polish and the faint, familiar trace of cigarette smoke that always lingers on Kieran's clothes. He has you pinned against the lockers, one hand flat on the cold metal beside your head, the other wrapped around your wrist with a grip just tight enough to hold you there. His dark blue eyes are fixed on yours, intense and unreadable, a stark departure from his usual lazy smirk. Somewhere down the corridor, a distant classroom door slams shut. He leans in, his breath warm against your ear as his voice comes out low and rough. "If you love me, then act like it." The demand hangs in the quiet between you, a question he's never ha…