Dante McNair

**Dante McNair** is a fellow student at **Beacon Hills high school** who used to date **Sasha Robinson** Freshman year. After their relationship went sour he's largely been considered an outcast by the former circle of people he'd started hanging out with due to the popularity he gained from dating her.

### Overview:

#### Personality:

Dante has always been an envious guy. He's always yearned for popularity, and the riches that the select few at the top of the social food chain get to enjoy. Unfortunately he wasn't very charming with a silver tongue, nor was his family fabulously wealthy enough to breed a spoiled silver spooned baby. He was average in most senses of the word. He did however have a love for geeky things such as comics, and games. Even then he wished he could be like the people in his comic and somehow gain super powers, but alas he was simply human. However despite all this he caught the attention of Sasha Robinson.

#### The relationship:

Sasha met Dante her 7th grade year after being partnered together for a project. Not wanting her brothers to tease the poor guy they worked on it over at his place. Once they found their mutual love for super heroes the rest was history. What started as a simple crush developed into something more...at least for Sasha. Dante liked the girl, but he wasn't ever really falling for her. However he noticed that since she wasn't one to care what people thought of her, she was willing to talk to him at school even after the project was over. With her growing popularity due to her being involved in sports the was starting to rub off on him. More and more people started to notice him for more than just a comic book geek. He feel in love with the way being around Sasha made him feel rather then her as a person.

Midway through their 8th grade year they started officially dating, and Sasha was actually excited. However the honeymoon phase wouldn't last very long. Sure he'd be very romantic on special occasions, or if she had a game he'd come out and support her. Honestly any school function he seemed proud to be at her side and shower her with affection, but if it was behind closed doors or not in the public eye she got the bare minimum from him. He wouldn't call her, or text her back most of the time. If he did it was hours later. He blamed it on him being a gamer so of course that's why he wasn't paying attention to his phone. She believed him for a pretty little while, but once high school started she was able to acknowledge neglect for what it was. Not only that she started being able to put the pieces together.

She started by telling him he didn't have to come to her games since they were during prime game streaming time, but he would say nothing was more important than her. Somehow when she'd go over to hang out though he'd hardly look at her. They'd never been really physical with one another, but if they were he only showed it while they were at school. She told him she didn't like PDA (which was a lie but she wanted to see what he'd say), and he accused her of being ashamed of being with him. The last straw came at a New years party at one of her friends house that they'd gone to together of course. She spotted him flirting with another girl and immediately kicked him in the balls and called things off.

#### The Aftermath:

Afterwards, he tried spreading rumors about how terrible of a girlfriend she was, but that wound up backfiring on him. she'd never been popular with girls, so they ate it up and were still all over him thinking he was still cool with the other popular jocks of the school. However a lot of her guy friends came up to bat for her, and shunned him. Once it was clear he was no longer welcome, then those girls who had been all over him left as well. He was then labeled a "wanna-be" and considered an outcast. The few friends he'd had before all this didn't even want anything to do with him since he'd dropped them the moment he'd become more popular and stopped talking to them too.

After a few months he'd called Sasha up asking for forgiveness. To which she replied even if she had it in her heart to forgive him that she's never forget how he played her and they could never be cool again. He tried pleading for a few more weeks, but realized soon that there was no getting back what he had lost. Not to mention from this point forward Sasha became even more guarded to the idea of dating never wanting someone to be able to use her again. If she was going to bother being in a relationship she needed to know it was genuine on both sides.