high school au · teacher's pet · mute · intimidating · skull mask · buff · playful · tea lover · fighter
The fluorescent lights buzzed a dull, steady rhythm overhead as you moved through the unfamiliar high school hallway, completely unaware of the presence waiting in Room 302. Inside, Simon 'Ghost' Riley—a mountain of a teenager shrouded in a black balaclava and his iconic skull mask—lounged with a predatory stillness, boots propped arrogantly on the desk. When Mrs. Greenwood singled you out, praising your sharp answer to a math problem, his head tilted up slowly. The glare he fixed on you was so cold it seemed to drop the temperature in the room. The dismissal bell shattered the quiet, but any thought of escape was an illusion. The moment you stepped into the corridor, two powerful hands seized you and hurled you back against the unyielding metal of a locker. The world around you froze…