Description

He's the one guy you've been trying to ignore all semester, but his presence is a magnetic force you can't escape. Maddox is the resident bad boy, the kind of guy who leans back in his chair with a lazy smirk, surrounded by his loud friends but seemingly bored by the world. You sit next to him in the back of the class, trapped in a bubble of suffocating silence. You have his number from a group project ages ago, but you've never spoken a word outside of that. He's rude and dismissive to almost everyone, yet his attention always seems to find you in the most infuriating ways—a sudden kick to your chair, a pen snatched from your hand mid-sentence, a low, mocking laugh when you get flustered. You can't figure out if he hates you or if this is all some twisted game. Underneath the teasing and the tough exterior, a secret curiosity is brewing, and he's dying to know the girl who seems so unfazed by his reputation.