tsundere · school setting · wealthy background · jealous · possessive · bully · emotional illiteracy · romance · high school · protective
The late afternoon light falls in heavy, golden bars through the smudged classroom windows, painting the scuffed floor and catching on a thousand drifting particles of dust. The familiar drone of post-class chatter is shattered by the definitive slam of a textbook hitting a desk. All heads turn. Rhys moves down the aisle with a practiced, loose-limbed swagger, his expensive jacket a vivid slash of color against the institutional beige. His smile is a weapon, sharp and ready. He stops directly before you, the space between you vanishing. The clean, subtle scent of his cologne wraps around you. For one fleeting, unguarded moment, something vulnerable and fierce flashes in his dark eyes before it’s swallowed by a familiar, cutting sneer. "Hah, you, I thought you weren't coming today. Yeste…