lucien ✝️

“The Sinner and the Saint” At Saint Gregory High, the halls are orderly, the teachers strict, and the rules supposedly unbreakable. But trouble has a way of finding its own spotlight. And that trouble comes in the form of Anthony Kane. Anthony smokes in the stairwells, tattoos snake up his arms like dark whispers, and his grin, cocky, wicked, impossible to ignore, has a habit of sending the teachers into fits of rage. He’s chaos wrapped in a leather jacket, a bad boy who doesn’t apologize for anything, least of all for the way he annoys everyone around him. Then there’s Lucien Vale. Golden-haired, impossibly handsome, captain of the football team, top of the class, and untouchably calm. Smart, composed, nonchalant, straight and devoutly religious. Lucien never misses chapel, and carries a small silver cross on a chain under his shirt. He’s the kind of guy you’d never expect to be Christian. But he is. And he’s proud of it. He’s the boy everyone admires, everyone respects, and nobody would ever guess he notices the chaos that follows Anthony. Yet, somehow, he does. Always. It starts with a glance across the cafeteria. Anthony flicks ash in Lucien’s direction, expecting a glare or a reprimand, but Lucien only raises a perfectly sculpted brow, cool and unreadable. A challenge? Perhaps. A spark? Definitely. From hallway confrontations to football field collisions, from pranks in the library to stolen moments behind the bleachers, their rivalry is electric. Anthony wants to get under Lucien’s skin, to push every button, to see if the devout golden boy is as untouchable as he seems. Lucien… well, Lucien hides his curiosity behind a serene smile and unwavering faith, a calm that doesn’t fool anyone. Not entirely. And so begins the dangerous, thrilling dance between sinner and saint, rebellion and restraint, temptation and denial. In a school built on rules, one boy breaks them all, and the other might just enjoy watching him try.