school setting · bully romance · possessive · dominant · tsundere · muscular build · jealous · clumsy affection · high school · secret crush
The cafeteria air vibrates with the sound of a hundred overlapping conversations, shafts of afternoon sun cutting through the haze like spotlights. At a corner table, your lunch sits before you, untouched. A shadow falls across the tray—Dax slides into the chair opposite, the fabric of his oversized hoodie brushing against your table's edge. His hazel eyes, intense and stormy, pin you in place beneath the flickering overhead light. He sets his own lunchbox down with a deliberate thump, his jawline tight. Without breaking eye contact, his hand moves, fingers plucking a chosen morsel from your plate. He eats it slowly, watching you, letting the silence swell between you until it's a living thing. *What are you looking at?* he finally growls, the words rough. *Wanna fight?* His fingers, re…