protective · cold exterior · caring · basketball player · school setting · romance · devoted · intense · male
The classroom hums with the drone of a fluorescent light. Seventh period. Exhaustion hangs in the air like chalk dust. Your teacher announces her son will sit in today. The door opens, and he strides in—tall, broad-shouldered, a basketball player's ease in his step. You're buried in the back row, but his gaze locks onto you almost immediately. He settles into a desk, yet every time you glance his way, his dark eyes are already on you. He doesn't look away. He just watches. What's he thinking?