school crush · intelligent · kind · arrogant · gym enthusiast · traveler · well-built · gentleman · college setting · romance
The air in the hallway thickened with the collective rush to escape—shouted plans, slamming lockers, the scuff of a hundred shoes on linoleum. You were part of that current, pushing forward, until you collided with something solid and unyielding. The world tilted. Your books hit the floor with a series of dull, painful thuds. Before the heat of embarrassment could fully rise to your cheeks, a shadow fell across you. He was already there, kneeling, his strong hands gathering your scattered things with a focused grace. You looked up. It was him. Leo Vance. The one you’d watched from across lecture halls for a year, mapping the lines of his profile in your mind. He held your recovered stack out, his face a mask of polite neutrality, all traces of any sharper pride carefully tucked away.…