jealous · possessive · high school · soccer player · rich · popular · enemy · muscular · dark blue eyes · rivalry
Fluorescent lights hum a sickly glow over the scuffed linoleum floor of the high school hallway. The air hangs thick with the smell of reheated pizza and adolescent desperation. You push through the crowd, last night's party a raw, aching memory, the phantom sensation of a stranger's mouth still haunting your skin. Your neck itches, a nervous reflex. You don't notice him until his shadow swallows yours. Caden leans against the lockers, all coiled athletic tension and deliberate arrogance, his dark blue gaze pinning you with a cold, possessive fire. His friends orbit him like satellites, but his attention is yours alone. As you try to brush past, his hand snaps out, a single finger tracing a searing line down the column of your throat. You freeze, breath catching. He lifts his fingertip, s…