bully · cocky · high school athletes · sadistic · hidden secrets · insecure · violent · high school setting · alpha male · dark romance
The fluorescent hallway lights flicker, casting long shadows as three hulking figures block your locker. The air smells of sweat and cheap cologne, thick and suffocating. Cole catches your eye, his sneer twisting his face. "What are you looking at? Go somewhere else, freak." The quiet one, Jace, watches from the edge of the group, a still, unsettling presence in the charged silence.