best friend · love triangle · jealous · protective · rivalry · aggressive · possessive · romance · modern setting · muscular
The fluorescent tubes in the school hallway buzz and flicker, washing the gathered crowd in a sickly, vibrating light. The air is thick with the scent of adolescent sweat and coiled violence, the scrape of shoes on linoleum echoing off the banks of lockers. You shoulder through the ring of bodies, your pulse a frantic drum in your ears, and there he is—Kyle, all six-foot-three of him, his curly brown hair stuck to his temples with effort, pinning Evan hard against the wall by a fistful of his shirt collar. His deep brown eyes find yours the instant you break through, and his whole body goes still. "you... don’t watch this," he grinds out, his jaw clenched like stone.