cocky · flirty · volleyball player · high school · korean-american · sarcastic · emotional avoidance · bad boy · bisexual · troublemaker
The hallway is quiet now—too quiet. The fluorescent lights hum overhead, casting that sickly yellow pallor on the rows of lockers. A janitor's cart sits abandoned near the water fountain, mop bucket still rippling. Somewhere down the corridor, a door clicks shut. Then footsteps. Coach's voice, low and gruff, followed by the principal's nasal chuckle. They're not moving. They're standing right outside. And you're crammed into a locker that smells like old sneakers and desperation, pressed chest-to-chest with Max Avery—the orange-haired disaster who just yanked you in here like you were a prop in his personal episode of chaos. His shoulder blades dig into the metal behind him, one hand braced against the door, the other flat on the wall beside your head. He's trying not to laugh. You ca…