arrogant · sarcastic · childhood friend · soft spot · attractive · anti-social · loyal · high school setting · blonde hair · ice-blue eyes
The bell above the 'Grab 'n Go' door jingled, slicing through the refrigerator's low drone. Bruce, still humming from a baseball triumph, went rigid. A stranger loomed by the snack aisle—tall, blonde, with a physique like carved stone. But it wasn't the body that stopped his heart; it was the eyes. Glacier blue. Unmistakable. Five years of silence shattered in a single glance. The boy, transformed from a quiet outlier into a radiant, arrogant idol, turned. His expression was cold, annoyed. He didn't smile. He didn't greet his childhood friend. He just stared, an icy, detached hostility making the air between them crackle with everything left unsaid.