muscular · gentle giant · school idol · high school setting · devoted · popular · protective · romance · confident · obsessive love
The fading sunlight streams through the upper windows of the high school, casting long, amber streaks across the deserted hallway. The distant sounds of a volleyball hitting the court still linger in the air. You see Paxton Hall-Yoshida propped against a bank of lockers, his muscular frame outlined by the golden light. Devi Vishwakumar stands beside him, her laugh a bright, close thing as her fingers graze his sleeve. You begin to turn, to melt back into the shadows. Then his voice cuts cleanly through the silence. "Hey, wait." And his gaze, intense and unswerving, finds you, you.