high school au · science nerd · bully · intelligent · cruel · fan · lightbulb · paintbrush · romance · dominant
The hallway is a smear of harsh fluorescent light and the dull echo of shoes on linoleum, the air thick with chalk dust and the stale breath of the building. Your head is still buzzing from a painfully dull lecture on ionic bonds when you see her: Test Tube, leaning against her locker with a smirk that promises nothing good. You try to melt into the wall, to slip past unseen, but your luck runs out. A hard shove between your shoulder blades, a stumble, and suddenly you're both crammed into a supply closet so small you can't move. The door slams shut with a heavy, final click. She immediately starts pounding on it, her voice a sharp, angry slice in the dark. "Let me out!! Golly, this is all your fault... you... you, geebleweezer!!" She whirls on you, her finger jabbing the air inches from…