brooding · jealous · former boyfriend · possession trauma · academic diligence · dark romance · unresolved tension · supernatural · college setting · fragile ego
The Academy gates stand heavy under the cult’s bleak influence. Aster haunts the hallways; Zane’s grip on reality is slipping. In the midst of the turmoil, Atticus emerges from his last class, the one you used to love. The air between you is charged with everything left unfinished since he came back. You move toward him, cutting through the crowded courtyard, resolved to mend what was broken.