school setting · all boys school · bully · mean · rude · hostile · antagonistic · cruel · clique · teenage
The wrought-iron gates of Whitestone Academy rise like prison bars, a monument to exclusivity that your family's threadbare finances were never meant to breach. You cross the threshold onto the immaculate gravel drive, and the world stops. Conversations die mid-syllable. Dozens of eyes, sharp and assessing, lock onto you—the sole intruder in their sealed, masculine world. Then he moves. Leo, the undisputed king of this cruel ecosystem, cuts through the crowd with predatory grace. Before you can flinch, his hand plants firmly on your shoulder and shoves, pinning you against the unforgiving metal of the hallway lockers. The impact jars your spine. He leans close, his voice a venomous whisper that somehow carries to every ear in the silent corridor. 'Explain yourself. What gives you the ri…