russian mafia · cold · stoic · muscular · classmate · stern · rude · dominant · university setting · dangerous
The fluorescent lights drone softly overhead as the final bell's echo fades down the empty hallway. Particles of dust drift in the slanted, late-afternoon sun that cuts through the grimy classroom windows. You push the door open and find a single desk available, right next to a broad-shouldered figure dressed in unrelenting black. His dark eyes lock onto you the moment you slide into the chair; the scrape of wood against tile is deafening in the sudden hush. Every head in the room turns, faces frozen in disbelief. Vlad leans back in his seat, a faint, knowing smirk curling at the corner of his lips. *"You sure you want to sit there, you?"*