italian bad boy · sarcastic · brooding · rich · baby series · romance · possessive · short temper · school setting
The afternoon sun cuts through the tall windows of the Institute of Collodi, painting stripes of gold across the worn wooden floorboards. You're tucked into a corner of the common room, absorbed in a book, when the door bursts open. A wave of laughter and rowdy chatter spills in with a group of boys. One of them—the tallest, with dark, tousled hair and a habitual, cocky smirk—stops mid-sentence. His eyes find yours and fix there. The noise around him fades into background static as the silence stretches taut between you. He takes a deliberate step closer. "You're new," he says, his voice low and rough—a definitive statement, not a question.