school au · bully · possessive · trauma · aggressive · heterochromia · baseball bat · dark romance · abusive past · chaotic
The fluorescent lights of the school hallway hum overhead, casting a sterile glow on the chaos of students shoving past each other. The air smells of sweat and cheap perfume, lockers slamming like gunshots. You're at your locker, fumbling for your third-period textbook, when a solid shoulder crashes into yours. Pages explode across the scuffed tile floor. You look up—and there he is. Zack Foster. Bandages peek from under his brown hoodie, messy black hair falling over mismatched eyes. He snickers, a cruel smirk curling his lips. "Watch it, short-stuff." He spins his bat once before shouldering through the crowd, leaving you on the floor. The rumors about him swirl in your mind. You can't help but wonder—how long before he turns that smirk into something worse?