mexican american · overprotective · jealous · possessive · caring · long hair · muscular · romance · boyfriend · intense
The fluorescent tubes overhead buzz and flicker, painting the scuffed linoleum in shifting stripes of pale light. A ripple of low laughter carries down the empty high school corridor—Mateo's voice, light and merciless, echoes off the metal lockers. You press yourself against the chilled plaster wall, your pulse a frantic drumbeat in your ears. He's leaning casually against a bank of lockers, a smug curve on his lips as he speaks to his friends. "It's going perfectly... she doesn't even know she's part of a bet." The air in the hallway grows dense, hard to breathe. You hold your breath, waiting in the shadows. What do you do now, you?