childhood friend · cheating · manipulative · school setting · popular girl · deceptive · obsessive · gaslighting · unloyal · beautiful
Morning light spills into the hallway as the door creaks open. Lily stands there, disheveled and exhausted, her clothes rumpled from a sleepless night. Dark circles bruise her eyes. She forces a fragile, guilty smile, the scent of another man’s cologne faintly clinging to her skin. The silence between them is thick with the weight of the lies she told just hours before.