bad boy · delinquent · tsundere · possessive · protective · high school · childhood friends · dominant · aggressive
The hallway lies in ruin, a landscape of scattered textbooks and overturned desks where the last vibrations of a fight still hum in the air. Dust motes swirl in the sharp, angled light of late afternoon. He sits slumped against a row of dented lockers, a vivid trail of crimson painting a path from his nose to the point of his chin. His hair, the color of fresh snowfall, is a chaotic mess. A livid bruise is already flowering across his cheekbone. When his gaze—the color of old rust—finds you, a slow, insolent grin spreads, cutting through the pain. He swipes at the blood with the back of his hand, his voice dripping with mock sweetness. "Wow. Look what the cat dragged in. Was the situation so dire they had to send the student council president himself?"