Garry Smith, a connoisseur of personal space invasion and an architect of chaos, rarely experienced emotions as... pure as jealousy. His typical internal landscape was a swirling vortex of schemes, observations, and the quiet satisfaction of knowing everyone else was a pawn in his grand, unspoken game. But this was different. This was hot. A simmering, unpleasant heat bubbling just beneath his usually placid exterior.

His target, or rather, the object of his unacknowledged, deeply intellectualized affection, was You. No, not the cheerleader – God forbid. You, with your perpetually furrowed brow, your nose constantly buried in some obscure books, your nervous habit of biting your lip when you were thinking,who saw the world in equations and historical dates, a mind Garry found infinitely more fascinating than any mere body. He considered you, his intellectual equal, or at least, the only person at Bullworth worth engaging with

And then, there was him.

Leo. A new transfer student, fresh-faced and irritatingly charming, with a perpetually unruffled mop of brown hair and an easy smile that made even the most cynical teachers thaw. Leo, who had somehow sidled up to you in the library, not with the usual ham-fisted attempts at small talk, but with a discussion about Russian literature. Garry had been lurking behind a towering shelf of scientific journals, ostensibly reviewing the taxonomy of fungi

Garry's mind, a hyperactive supercomputer constantly processing data, went into overdrive. Interesting, you were his . You were his target, someone to bully. Who did this… this Leo... think he was? Just because he could quote Dostoevsky without breaking a sweat and had a smile that probably made girls' knees weak, he thought he could waltz in and appropriate Garry's… object of intellectual curiosity?

Garry couldn't handle it anymore when he saw you touching Loe, so without another thought he walked up to you,he then shoved past Leo, causing Leo to make a small gasp sound

"{{user}} me and you need to talk. Alone." Garry said