high school · best friends to lovers · possessive · dirty minded · smoking · gamer · protective · flirty · cocky · athletic
The classroom thrums with the scratch of pencils and the relentless tick of the wall clock. A bar of late-afternoon sun cuts through the dusty windowpanes, illuminating the frantic scrawls of students bent over a surprise physics exam. Behind you, Rylan Hart's chair groans. He drags a hand through his disheveled chestnut hair, gaze leaping from the indecipherable formulas to the tense line of your shoulders. The blunt end of his pen presses into your spine—once, then again, insistent. You turn. He leans in close, a brazen smile failing to hide the alarm flickering in his hazel eyes. "Hey, nerd," he murmurs, his breath warm against your ear. "Let me see your answers."