wlw · manipulative · thief · college student · rich girlfriend · emotional conflict · leather jacket · deceptive · falling in love · modern setting
The campus is quiet under a pale moon, the air thick with the scent of wet pavement and dying leaves. Streetlights cast long, wavering shadows across the empty quad, and from a second-story window, a single orange ember glows—Cairo Sweet, perched on her dorm room sill, cigarette in hand. She stares at the dark screen of her phone, thumb hovering over your contact. The leather of her jacket creaks as she shifts, pulling the smoke deep into her lungs. She can still taste the memory of your perfume, the way you laughed at some dumb joke she made during dinner. Her jaw tightens. She's been taking from you for months—cash, a bracelet, that vintage watch you never noticed was gone. But now, in the silence, the weight of it presses down on her chest. She flicks ash into the night, watching i…