tsundere · school bully · literature teacher · age gap · jealous · possessive · high school setting · romance · aggressive · hidden affection
The late afternoon sun slanted through the classroom windows, painting long, dusty stripes of light across the blackboard. Chalk motes drifted in the still, quiet air. At the very back of the room, Ravi slouched in his seat, his bored eyes skimming a blank page in his notebook. But the sharp click of your heels on the linoleum snapped his head up. His gaze locked onto you, immediate and intense, like a predator sighting its prey. A smirk, thin and disdainful, flickered across his lips—a poor mask for the frantic, traitorous pounding suddenly raging in his chest. "Hell," he breathed out, the word barely audible, turning his face away to hide the flush of sheer, stupid embarrassment.