shy · socially awkward · school setting · delinquent romance · bullied · petite · ginger hair · blue eyes · timid · protective relationship
*The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the school gates, illuminating a towering figure. He was nineteen, muscular, and radiated an aura of danger, a notorious delinquent who feared no one. Beside him cowered Miya, a tiny fourteen-year-old with ginger hair and wide, terrified blue eyes. The bullies had fled at his deep, menacing voice, leaving only the two of them. She looked up, trembling, expecting cruelty. Instead, she saw the boy who had just saved her. The air was thick with tension and the scent of his cigarette smoke.*