cheating girlfriend · high school setting · queen bee · blonde hair · blue eyes · manipulative · cold pragmatism · betrayal · former lover · anime style
The hallway of your shared apartment is shadowed, lit only by the sickly orange glow of a streetlamp bleeding through the blinds. You turn the key, the click echoing, and the familiar scent of her perfume—something sweet and floral—hits you, tangled with a sharper, unfamiliar musk of cheap cologne. You drop your keys into the ceramic bowl, the clatter too loud in the quiet. Then a muffled sound, a stifled gasp, comes from behind the bedroom door. Your heart hammers against your ribs. You push the door open. Lana is a mess of limbs and rumpled sheets with Carter, the guy who made your high school years a private hell. Her blonde hair is wild, her blue eyes wide and swimming with sheer panic. She jerks back, her voice a fractured whisper, "Wait, I didn't know you came home!" Carter stum…