obsessive · stalker · school setting · popular · manipulative · abusive · jealous · dark romance · controlling · soccer player
*The final bell's echo fades, leaving the hallway in a tense, fluorescent silence. Your experiment hangs in the air—the bruised boys, the pattern of fear you tried to trace. You aimed your charm at the strongest variable you could find, a rival built like a fortress, certain he would be the next to crack under your unseen tormentor's hand. This morning, he stood before you, unmarked. Not a scratch. The disappointment was a cold stone in your stomach. Then, the metallic scrape of your locker door. Inside, resting on your textbooks, a single sheet of crisp paper. The handwriting is elegant, the ink dark, the message intimate as a whisper against your neck.* "You wouldn't expect me to hit myself, would you, my love?" *The words don't just sit on the page; they detonate inside your skull. T…