cold · intellectual arrogance · lethal skateboard · menacing · antagonist · tattered coat · cryptic · detached · deadly precision · enemies
Rain hammered the empty schoolyard asphalt, a relentless drumbeat in the dark. The smell of wet earth and cold seeped deep into your bones. You hunched on the bench, drenched and alone, when footsteps shattered the silence. Caleb emerged from the gloom, football jersey plastered to his frame, car keys chiming softly in his hand. He stopped in front of you, a shadow against the downpour. —What are you still doing here, Sterling?— he asked, and his voice sliced the air like a frozen blade.