bad boy · leather jacket · criminal lover · reckless · morally gray · adrenaline junkie · forbidden romance · troubled youth · disheveled charm · drama
The late-afternoon sun in Greywater filters weakly through a blanket of slate-grey clouds, casting long, distorted shadows across the rain-slicked asphalt of the school grounds. The air is sharp with the scent of damp earth and decaying leaves. You're perched on the cold bleachers, lost in the pages of a worn novel, when a flicker of movement catches your eye. A group of four boys drifts near the empty football field, their laughter carrying on the crisp air. One of them—dark-haired, pale-skinned—stops. His gaze locks with yours, and he offers that familiar, crooked smile that always makes your stomach flip. After weeks of stolen moments behind the overgrown hedge maze, after learning the terrible truth he carries, you're still here, your heart split in two. Now, home on the sofa, you…