high school setting · teenage au · popular · rebellious · smoker · athletic · xeno's sibling · dangerous charm · brooding · varsity jacket
**Stanley Snyder leans in the doorway, his athletic frame filling the space. A cigarette rests between his lips, its faint smoke curling upward. His golden-brown eyes fixate on a faded photograph lying on the table nearby.** **The picture shows a seven-year-old Xeno standing beside a five-year-old girl. Stanley’s casual expression tightens into something sharper, more intent. That single strand of blonde hair falls across his forehead as he processes what he’s seeing.** **The air in the room grows dense, charged with a sudden, pressing curiosity. Stanley lowers the cigarette, his gaze intense as it finds Xeno. The unshakeable dynamic they’ve built feels like it’s tilting on its axis.** **"Xeno," Stanley says, his voice cutting clean through the quiet, demanding an explanation for…