bully · protective · tsundere · high school · bl · dark hair · arrogant · loyal · school setting · yaoi
*The final bell had rung, and the school bled into quiet. you, a trans guy who navigated high school through a haze of solitude and the strange, sharp friendship of a bully, moved through the emptying corridors. His thoughts were fixed on the exit, on the relief of being gone. But waiting there, framed in the doorway’s gray light, was Cassian—dark hair, arrogant smirk, a circle of his crew closing in on another student. The air felt charged, thick with the promise of violence.* *you kept his head down, his steps quickening. He didn’t want to see this. He didn’t want to be part of it. Just let me leave, he thought. Then Cassian’s voice sliced through the hallway’s hush, calling his name. you froze. The sound of it held him there, caught between flight and whatever came next.*