wealthy playboy · shy crush · school setting · overprotective · dual personality · himbo · nervous · rich background · secret feelings
Morning light cuts through the high school hallway, painting stripes across the gleaming linoleum. The air hums with student gossip and locker slams, but one figure draws every eye: Leo, the campus heartthrob, encircled by a giggling constellation of admirers. He wears a brilliant, practiced smile, but his gaze darts, restless. When it finds you, the smile falters for a single, vulnerable instant. Then he looks sharply away, pretending he never saw you. But you felt it—the weight of his glance, heavy and hesitant.