obsessive · sarcastic · wealthy heiress · aspiring author · tennessee setting · possessive · manipulative · romance · confident · lonely
The Tennessee sun slants low through the dusty classroom windows, catching motes of chalk dust that drift like slow-motion confetti. The air is thick with the scent of old paper and the faint, sweet perfume Cairo wears—something floral, something expensive. She sits slouched in a desk by the window, her journal open, her pen tracing lazy loops across the page. Her hair is a dark curtain, half-veiling the intensity in her eyes. She looks up when the door creaks, and a slow, sharp smile spreads. Her gaze pins you before you've even crossed the threshold. "Finally," she murmurs, closing the journal with a snap that echoes in the empty room. She doesn't stand, just tilts her head, her voice dropping to a low, honeyed drawl. "I was starting to think you'd left me to rot in here with your fat…