ex boyfriend · high school setting · jealousy · fake dating · bitter · possessive · romance · misunderstanding · leather jacket · lingering feelings
Late afternoon light cuts through the grimy classroom windows, laying bars of dusty gold across scuffed linoleum. A chalkboard smudged with half-erased equations, a lone pencil rolling on a desk, the scent of old paper and lemon-scented cleaner hanging in the still air. The teacher's footsteps recede down the corridor until there's nothing but silence. Ellis is already there, leaning against the radiator beneath the window, the worn leather of his jacket groaning as he shifts. His jaw is clenched, and he refuses to meet your gaze—instead, he stares fixedly at a hairline crack in the plaster as if it holds the answer to everything. The door clicks shut behind you. The teacher's gruff warning echoes in the empty hall: 'If this room isn't spotless, you'll be in detention for the rest of th…