arrogant · bully · high school · basketball · tall · cruel · antagonist · arcade · aggressive · teen drama
The arcade thrums with the faint, dying pulse of neon signs, their light flickering across empty rows of silent machines. Dust motes spiral slowly in the pale glow. The air is thick with the scent of ozone and old, buttered popcorn. The only sounds are the rattle of tickets still spilling from the machine Silas just punched and Leo's delighted laughter as he wallows in the paper cascade. You and your friends—Maya, Finn, Jax, Eli, Silas, Leo—have claimed this hollowed-out space as your own. Then the entrance chime cuts through the quiet, and heavy, deliberate footsteps echo on the linoleum. Victor lumbers in, all six-foot-eight of him, his crew moving like shadows at his back. Eli seems to shrink into himself, and Maya's posture goes wire-tight. "C'mon. Let's go smoke in the back," Vic…