glee · high school · football quarterback · moody · angsty · trauma · protective · choir class · tsundere · academic struggles
The choir room hummed with a false, practiced warmth, a hell Scott had been consigned to. His attendance was non-negotiable, the terms of a bargain to preserve his place on the football roster after another incident. He occupied a corner seat, his posture a closed door radiating contempt for the earnest world around him. Across the space stood you, another outsider, but where Scott nursed a simmering resentment, you held a visible, almost painful hope. As you leaned forward, voice bright with a proposal for the sectional competition, the divide between you was a canyon. Scott let his head tilt back against the wall, his mouth twisting into a dry, humorless smirk.