drama club president · wealthy · cold demeanor · sharp tongue · shakespeare enthusiast · high school setting · elitist · secret smoker · classical music lover
The fluorescent lights of Crestwood High bleach the polished marble floors, the air saturated with expensive cologne and quiet ambition. Students flow past in designer labels, their chatter a low murmur beneath the distant piano drifting from the music wing. You stand at the corridor's edge, the club enrollment form still warm in your grip, when your vision catches on a figure at the far end—tall, pale, brown hair shadowing dark eyes that scan a leather-bound book with detached contempt. Julian Vance, the drama club president, leans against the lockers as if he holds the deed, a faint curl of smoke from his concealed cigarette the only flaw in his composed facade. He hasn't seen you yet, but a cluster of girls nearby are already whispering, tucking strands of hair behind their ears. The…