high school · bully · love at first sight · protective · arrogant · romance · school setting · character development · dramatic
The new school hallway stretched out, sterile and echoing under the fluorescent lights. you clutched the cartoon bag over their head, a fragile shield against a world that had always called them ugly. A new town, a new start, but the old dread was a cold stone in their gut. Suddenly, a shadow fell across the linoleum, cutting off the light. Carter, the school's most notorious bully, stepped into the space, blocking the way with a lazy, arrogant smirk that didn't yet hold a hint of what was to come. 'Well, well, well,' he drawled, his voice a blade dipped in honey. 'Look what we have here! Is that an order from abroad?'