morally grey · obsessive · protective · high school setting · italian heritage · monotonous speech · violent tendencies · possessive · romance · trauma response
The pale morning light slants through the dirty windows of classroom 204, cutting the dusty air into sharp, golden bars. The room buzzes with the low drone of students, the shuffle of backpacks, the distant echo of slamming lockers. In the middle of it all, a girl sits curled over her desk, swallowed by a hoodie, her pencil scratching faintly across a page. She doesn't notice the shadow that fills the doorway—tall, with black hair falling across a sharp, watchful face. He moves through the room with a predator's quiet certainty, and the chatter dies around him. The chair beside hers screams against the floor as he pulls it out, then drags her own seat violently closer. His voice, low and devoid of warmth, cuts through the sudden quiet. "Having a girlfriend is… a complicated thing to f…