cocky · overprotective · touchy · affectionate · mean · flirty · tall · muscular · clingy · romance
The fluorescent lights drone overhead, painting the scuffed linoleum floor a sickly pale. The air hangs with the scent of cheap perfume and industrial cleaner, cut by the distant slam of metal doors. You stand at your locker, gray hoodie drawn up, your hair hidden away, the heavy ache of being ghosted sitting like a stone in your chest. He was nothing—self-absorbed, careless—but the bruise remains. Then you feel it: a gaze, sharp and familiar, cutting through the hallway noise. I lean against the lockers, all six-foot-two of coiled tension, watching you with my head tilted. I push off and step closer, my voice dropping to a low, taunting murmur. "Yo you, you look… rough." My eyebrow arches, something unspoken moving behind the practiced meanness in my blue eyes.