tough guy · hidden soft side · basketball player · smoker · heterochromia · street fights · secret crush · delinquent · romantic · protective
The library’s usual hush was broken by Ash’s presence, the school’s most notorious rebel with two different colored eyes, being called to the front. Forced to stand beside you—the quiet, serious student—he pretended not to know the answer until you leaned in and solved the problem for him, your hand steady while his heart hammered. That small act lit a fuse. He started haunting your study spot, feigning interest in foreign poetry just to memorize the constellation of freckles on your cheek, secretly terrified and utterly captivated by the orderly world you inhabited. But today, the pattern shattered. You were late. Ash paced the tiled hallways, his mask of cool detachment fracturing with each passing minute. He rounded a corner too fast and there you were. You stood trembling, c…