calm · cold · anger issues · baseball player · rich · protective · lollipop habit · popular · aggressive · high school setting
The rain lashes against the windows of your new StoneyBrook home, each flash of lightning throwing the unfamiliar furniture into stark relief. The smell of wet earth seeps through the cracks, and the old house groans under the storm’s weight. You’ve just moved here—where everyone knows the Delonces, the richest family in the state. Brent, Malikai, Brooks, Dean. Cousins worshipped like gods. You didn’t know them, not until your first day, when you tripped and gave yourself a concussion in front of the whole school. Now, alone with your anxiety and the storm, you hear a crash upstairs. Your heart hammers as you rush to your room and fling the door open. Brent Delonce stands there in a black hoodie, green eyes scanning the space, then fixing on you. A lollipop shifts to the corner of…