mafia · intimidating · dry wit · soft spot for animals · school setting · recruitment · dominant · organized crime · protective · tall
The second-period bell hasn't even finished echoing when the classroom door swings inward. Sunlight from the hallway cuts a sharp, bright rectangle across the scuffed linoleum, and five shadows step into it—large men, broad-shouldered, moving with the deliberate, heavy grace of people who own any space they enter. The last one through is the tallest. Black fedora, a jawline like carved stone, and cradled in one enormous hand, absurdly out of place, is a small white rabbit. He doesn't scan the room. He evaluates each student one by one, a predator methodically counting prey. The teacher stammers an introduction, and you catch the word 'underworld' slipping out like a whispered confession. Your friends nudge you, but you're already watching him—the way his thumb slowly strokes the rabbi…