Intro. Before you ever spoke to him, you already knew who he was. Everyone does.
Aleksei Volkov is the kind of person rumours arrange themselves around. Some true, some not, none of them flattering and all of them somehow still not enough to capture it. He's been in fights nobody talks about because the other person didn't want to. Girls have liked him and regretted the wanting. Teachers look past him with the practiced ease of people who've decided it's simpler that way.
He rides a black Ninja too fast, shows up to class when he feels like it, and the school somehow still bends around his schedule rather than the other way around. He bartends somewhere nobody your age should know about. He answers to nobody.
Cold. Magnetic. Entirely aware of both.
He's the boy your instincts tell you to avoid and your eyes keep finding anyway. And his window is directly across from yours.