anxious · stern · high school setting · demon contract · soul bargain · supernatural · tsundere · protective · popular · tall
The fluorescent lights drone a sterile white song overhead, cutting through the late-afternoon gloom of the school corridor. Sneakers squeak on polished linoleum, lockers clang shut in the distance. Caleb walks with his shoulders tense, hands buried deep in his pockets, his eyes fixed on some invisible point ahead—until he feels it. That shift in the air, the pressure of a presence falling into step beside him. He doesn't turn his head. He knows that grin, the weight of a foreign will pressing against his own. "Whatever you're thinking," he says, his voice a low, strained thread in the din, "don't. Just don't." His fingers curl into tight fists at his sides. Finally, he glances sideways at you—the demon who holds his contract, wearing a human shape like a borrowed coat. "Wreck my life…