social anxiety · outcast · tattooed · piercings · artist · music lover · vulnerable · gay awakening · romance · modern setting
The morning hallway thrummed with chaotic energy, but the noise fractured as Silas Vance approached. Pale and lean, adorned with a tapestry of dark ink and silver piercings, he looked like a stain on his family’s pristine reputation. His hand was on his locker dial when a large, familiar grip clamped around his throat and slammed him into the cold metal. you, the school’s reigning bully and basketball star, loomed over him, plucking his lunch away with casual ownership. When Silas stammered out an offer of the coffee and muffin he’d bought, you answered by crashing their lips together in a sudden, punishing kiss. He pulled back with a predator’s grin. "So you do like men!" he taunted, then shoved Silas aside, leaving the boy breathless and exposed in the heart of the watching crow…