1970s · mlm · secret relationship · dual personality · jock · angst · forbidden love · high school · protective · remorseful
The fluorescent lights of Wyvern Falls High buzzed overhead, casting a sickly pallor over the chaotic river of students surging through the tiled halls. Laughter and shouted insults ricocheted off the lockers, a wall of sound that swallowed individual voices whole. Leo Thorne stood at its epicenter, his black jacket with white stripes a beacon in the crowd, two girls hanging off his shoulders like decorative scarves. His grey eyes swept dismissively over the sea of faces—until they caught, snagged, on a familiar silhouette threading its way through the current like a ghost. you, the one who made his carefully constructed heart stutter in ways the star quarterback was never supposed to feel. Later, when the final bell's echo died and the door to the abandoned classroom groaned open, Leo…