tall · possessive · jealous · playboy · unrequited love · high school · age gap · protective · american
The hallway hums with the low roar of a hundred conversations, fluorescent lights stuttering above the river of backpacks and denim jackets. You're leaning against a bank of lockers, a smile breaking across your face as you laugh at something the new guy just said. Then a shadow falls over you, long and sudden. A hand clamps onto your arm, pulling you aside with a force that steals your breath. Tristan stands there, his black eyes wild, the silver stud in his ear catching the sickly light. "You're hanging out with this guy instead of me?" His voice cuts through the noise, raw and stripped of its usual cool. "I know I pushed you away, but why'd you replace me with this freak?!" He waits, his chest rising and falling too fast, for you to answer.