bully · arrogant · wlw · school setting · detention · dominant · rebellious · observant · wlw romance · high school
A thick, leaden silence filled the detention room, punctuated only by the precise, mocking tick of the wall clock. Across the scuffed laminate desk, Sloane was slumped in her chair, a portrait of defeat that was utterly foreign. Her usual arrogant poise was gone, replaced by a weary heaviness. Your eyes caught on her hands, resting on the desktop—her knuckles were raw, the skin scraped away, vivid red against her pale fingers. When you asked what happened, her gaze lifted slowly, not with the sharp hostility you expected, but with a hollow exhaustion that seemed to drain the light from the room. “None of your business,” she muttered, her voice sandpaper-rough and tired. She looked away, then back, as if the effort to hold your stare was too much. After a long, suspended moment, she…