ooh ooh AU if the all guys went to high school with MC and what their cliques are (maybe u can just expand on gavin’s)
ok i tried making this one a little more formal? aAh who is she :0 but lmk what you guys think! this was just fun to write haha,, feeling quite writerly at the moment im jk yall pls dont flame me
You, along with the rest of the entire school, knew Victor Li as the boy who was destined to become the CEO of a multi-million dollar worth conglomerate at some point of his life. The strikingly good looks, those severe grey eyes, the money that was basically leaking from his pores… yes. He was something else.
Although his admission to any prestigious university was pretty much guaranteed, Victor spent most of his free time at the library. Reading textbooks for advanced economics classes he hadn’t even taken yet, scribbling over tests that he definitely aced, and revising essays– the amount of manual labor he did for somebody as academically privileged as himself was almost frustrating.
Aside from the occasional group project, Victor tended to stick by himself. He was by no means socially inept– in fact, his debonair mannerisms and sheer charm swept basically every girl off her feet; but he simply seemed more content within his own little bubble.
But the rare instances he’d step outside of his bubble, he’d catch himself looking at you. The way you’d scrunch up your nose when a book got intense, the dimples in your cheeks that deepened with every smile… why was he, Victor Li, staring at an underclassman? And why couldn’t he get you out of his head?
If your high school was a food chain, Kiro Zhou was the behemoth shark. An effortless wink was all it ever took for Kiro to charm his way up to the front of a line. Tucked in the back pocket of his designer skinny jeans were invites to exclusive house parties that he never attended, because although he was the most popular boy at school– he was a relatively clean student.
Kiro hung around the popular kids. The ones that were gifted luxury cars the second they turned sixteen, who belittled students that cared about their grades in any capacity, and wanted to clean up their Instagram feeds more than their Smirnoff addictions. But he was different, and people knew this. He didn’t find any gratification through casually bullying his peers, nor did he value illegal IDs more than his grades.
Kiro was genuinely a nice boy. The teachers dismissed his friends as the fabulously wealthy troublemakers, but they knew Kiro for his warmth. Behind those bleached blonde locks were kind eyes– bewitchingly kind eyes that stirred the stomachs of the entire female student population.
But those eyes only ever flitted to you. Whether it was a passing period in a busy hallway, or after school, Kiro would find himself staring right at you. Your nose was pretty much always buried in a book, and you weren’t strikingly different from the rest of your friends appearance-wise… but there was something about you. He was captivated, to say the very least.
Ah, Gavin. The brutish, yet ruggedly handsome senior that exclusively rode a Harley Davidson Night Train motorcycle to school? Yes, you knew of him. You were ashamed to admit it, but you’d made a habit of observing him at lunch. The way his chestnut bangs only ever flicked to one side, the mysterious scar running down his collarbone, and his ragtag group of friends… he was definitely a rather interesting person.
But behind his stoic walls were the shards of a kindhearted person. You saw the fragments of Gavin’s gentleness on rare occasions– whether he was helping an elderly person cross the street, caring for an abandoned animal, or simply laughing with his friends. There was more to him than that arrogant badass who stole lunch money for cigarettes.
Gavin was also seldom in class. Some teachers simply stopped calling his name during attendance. Although his truancy seemed like a big problem, he still graduated with all of his classmates at the end of the year. Rumors about extortion and blackmail swirled around Gavin like a pesky swarm of gnats, but he never seemed to care.
That was his take on most things. He couldn’t care less about the gossipy girls or the boys that dared to challenge him. He only cared about… you. The girl that covered a mewling kitten with a handkerchief in the rain, the one that looked a little dorky, but fascinatingly cute? Yes, you.
There was a classmate you knew of, but didn’t quite know. Of course, you’d listened to your parents rave on and on about his amazing academic success, just as you’d heard your friends whining in disbelief about his SAT scores. His name was Lucien Xu. He wasn’t the most popular student, but he gained the reputation of the smartest guy in school. The fact that he was growing into his looks didn’t necessarily lessen the attention either, but he didn’t seem to mind. His friends were those that he met through Physics Club, Mathletes; typical academic extracurriculars.
Lucien frequented the science labs the most. Your school had recently remodeled the entire STEM wing, resulting in fifteen fabulously refurbished new labs. If you ever walked past the room he was in, you’d see him hunched over his notes, scribbling things onto the board, pouring the contents of one beaker into another. He truly was passionate about science, and wasn’t just trying to become a doctor to satisfy his parents’ wishes.
You understood this because you used to be friends with him. As children, you two were inseparable. He’d go on for hours about his new science experiments, and you’d listen (as if you even understood a word coming out of his mouth). But as the years passed by, the bond broke. You doubted Lucien was even aware of your presence in high school.
But, oh, was he aware! Although you were oblivious to it, Lucien was intrigued by you. He’d catch himself staring deeply at you from across the room, or simply tuning out other people’s voices just to hear yours. For some inexplicable reason, he was just attracted to you. He needed to know more about you.