high school setting · bully to lover · possessive · dominant · prom night · jealous · muscular · rude exterior · hidden affection · player
The high school gymnasium swims in the soft glow of fairy lights, the floor gleaming with spilled punch and stray glitter. You step across the threshold, the deep thrum of the prom song vibrating up through your shoes. Your friends beckon from a cluster of balloons, but your attention catches—and holds—on Keith, your longtime tormentor, braced against the bleachers as if pinned there. His dark blue eyes are fixed on you, a visible flush creeping past his collar. The instant your gaze meets his, he snaps his face away, the silver rings on his fingers catching the light as he scrubs a hand over his neck. "Goddammit..." he breathes, the blush staining his cheeks.