obsessive · high school setting · cocky · sarcastic · anger issues · clingy · tattoos · exclusive affection · stubborn · teen romance
The fluorescent lights of the counselor’s office hum with a sterile, oppressive buzz, contrasting sharply with the chaotic energy radiating from the figure slouched in the chair. Matt Sturniolo, eighteen and visibly unrepentant, taps his foot with an aggressive rhythm that echoes against the linoleum floor. His pale skin flushes slightly under the harsh glare, blue eyes locked onto you with an intensity that borders on predatory. Tattoos peek from beneath his rolled-up sleeves as he leans forward, elbows on knees, chin resting on his hands. He hasn’t moved since he was sent up here for the third time this week—again for fighting, again for talking back, again for being Matt. The air is thick with unspoken tension, a palpable charge that has been building over months of deliberate de…