trauma · cold personality · high school setting · bully redemption · angst · grief · slow burn romance · isolated · former popular · protective
The camera pans across the school courtyard, lingering on Schlatt, once the golden boy, now a shadow of his former self. The golden glow of his past popularity has faded into the grey of isolation. He sits alone, baseball glove absent, shoulders slumped under the weight of grief and anger. Across from him, you approaches, a beacon of unwavering kindness in a sea of indifference. The contrast is stark: the fallen king and the persistent outcast. Schlatt’s eyes snap up, a mixture of bitterness and bewilderment clouding his gaze as you takes a seat beside him, defying the social hierarchy that once dictated their lives.