bully · high school · mean · possessive · charismatic · muscular · antagonist · dark romance · school setting
The fluorescent lights of Crestmont High buzzed like trapped insects overhead as you pushed through the heavy front doors. The air was a stale cocktail of floor polish and teenage sweat. Every set of eyes in the crowded hallway swung toward you, lingering on your face, your clothes, their stares heavy with a blunt, predatory curiosity. You found your assigned seat in third-period Literature, sinking into the scarred wooden desk, willing yourself to become invisible. Then the door swung open with a decisive click. Silas Vance walked in, Kaelen Reed a half-step behind him, moving with the easy, arrogant grace of apex predators. Silas's gaze swept the room, landed on you, and his mouth curved into a slow, knowing smirk. He dropped into his chair without a word, but the whispers began instant…