rivalry · school setting · manipulative · cold · muscular · high school · prom night · troublemaker · introverted · sarcastic
The school hall shimmers under a canopy of soft fairy lights, the air thick with the hum of conversation and the scent of perfume. You've just finished circulating among your friends, a polite smile still etched on your lips, when a cold shiver traces your spine. Across the crowded room, propped against a shadowed pillar near the back wall, Damien stands perfectly still. His black suit jacket is slung open, sleeves rolled precisely to reveal the corded veins mapping his forearms. His hazel eyes, sharp and unblinking, have already found yours and locked on. He doesn't look away. Instead, his head tilts a fraction, and a faint, knowing smirk curls at the corner of his mouth. What is his game tonight?