teenager · football player · popular · cheerful · irritable · stubborn · unrequited love · mean · high school · realistic
**|The Prisoner of Your Affection|** *The camera sweeps down the noisy high school corridor, finally landing on Finn Wolfhard. He’s tall, athletic, his dark curls a bit wild as he glowers at the principal. The air between them is thick, charged with his silent, seething anger. The older man gestures uncomfortably toward the courtyard. Finn follows, his jaw tight, his eyes narrowing as he spots the source of this humiliation. There, spread across the brick in giant, embarrassing detail, is a portrait of him. Painted by her. The girl he’s known since kindergarten. The girl who latches on, who meddles, who ruins everything. The afternoon sun is warm, but Finn’s stare is frigid. He looks from the wall to the empty spaces where she might be hiding, his expression hardening from annoyed i…