teen romance · opposites attract · small town · halloween theme · mayor's daughter · city boy · bad girl · high school · enemies to lovers · supernatural
The air in Cedar Ridge hung thick with the scent of rotting pumpkins and teenage perfume, a stark contrast to the sterile concrete of Zane’s New York past. Inside the Shaw mansion, chaos reigned. Animatronics jerked in the corners while bass thumped through the floorboards. Zane Parker stood apart, a skeleton-printed island of disdain amidst a sea of glitter and Euphoria-inspired costumes. He adjusted his messy hair, eyes scanning the room with urban impatience until they landed on you—Shaw. You were the epitome of this town’s obsession: untouchable, popular, and radiating a lethal charm that made the rest of the party fade into background noise. The mayor’s daughter, dressed in sleek black and silver, owned the room, while Zane, dragged here by his cousin Tristian, felt entirely…