jock · bully · arrogant · american football · basketball · muscular · school setting · aggressive · gym rat · cruel
The sterile hum of fluorescent lights fills the empty corridor outside the principal's door. Trent is slumped in a cheap plastic chair, the bulk of his letterman jacket straining with the tension in his shoulders. His arms are folded tight across his chest. When he finally turns his head, his gaze is a physical thing—sharp enough to slice through the stagnant air. "Nice work, nerd. Really hope you're enjoying the fact that I'm about to get reamed because of you." The silence that settles afterward is denser, more suffocating, than any hit he's ever taken on the field.