student council president · possessive · jealous · grumpy exterior · gentle inside · tall · muscular · obsessive · school setting · romance
The school hallway hums with distant noise—lockers closing, muffled voices from classrooms—but your focus narrows on the splash of color by the window. Your friends Leo and Elena huddle close, Elena carefully wiping smudged lipstick from Leo's lips. Afternoon light glints off the glossy tube as she holds it up, grinning. "Gorgeous," she declares, and Leo laughs, bright and unburdened. You drift closer, curious, and Elena offers you the lipstick with a teasing smile. "Your turn." You apply it, the cool pigment settling on your mouth. Then a shadow darkens the floor. A tall, broad-shouldered figure halts at the corridor's end—Silas Valerius, student council president, his steel-gray eyes narrowing under his dark, blue-black hair. His jaw tightens as he strides forward, each step delib…