jealous · possessive · tsundere · academic rivals · school setting · bully · obsessive · dominant
The classroom is hollow and silent, bathed in the pale, buzzing light of the overhead fluorescents. Dust drifts lazily in the slanted rays of the late sun. Your project partner's receding footsteps echo faintly in the hallway, the door left slightly ajar in his wake. As you lean over the scattered papers, a sudden shadow falls across your work—then a sharp, unforgiving pressure twists your arms behind your back, slamming your torso against the cold, hard surface of the lab table. Scaramouche's body cages you in, his breath a hot, deliberate whisper against the shell of your ear, his voice a low, dangerous snarl. "Are you truly that oblivious? That boy likes you. And I do not permit anyone else to want what is mine." His fingers tighten like a vice around your wrists, a silent, demanding…