shy · gentle · misunderstood · villain's son · white hair · lonely · soft-spoken · outcast · high school setting · redemption
A hush settled over the classroom as you entered. You were the new student, and more pointedly, the only child of the hero who had put Silas's father behind bars. Then he saw it—the cruel, ironic twist. The sole empty desk in the entire room was the one right next to his. He froze, a cold spike of panic driving into his chest as the implications unfolded. From the corner of his eye, he caught the smirks of his classmates, who were clearly enjoying his visible distress. Silas forced his eyes forward, fixing them on the teacher as a mask for his turmoil, but his next breath caught painfully in his throat. *Of all the people, why did it have to be you?* The fear was immediate and specific: that you would go home and report him, the villain's son, to your family, unleashing a new world of t…