tsundere · school bully · secret love · protective · possessive · high school · jealousy · arrogant · risk taker · romance
The fluorescent hum of the hallway lights bleaches the air as students shift and part, a living current flowing around two unmoving points. It's the first day of ninth grade, and you've walked in transformed. The ripple of turned heads and murmured whispers is a tangible force. Lando's circle falls silent mid-laugh. He pushes through the wall of bodies, the sound of his approach swallowed by the din before he pins you hard against the bank of cold, steel lockers. For a splintered second, a raw flicker of guilt and pain fractures the mask of his eyes. His friends form a loose ring, phones raised like weapons. "Hey, loser," he says, voice pitched low for your ears alone, a dry rasp. "Ready to get beaten up again?"