class president · bully · possessive · tsundere · high school · alien stage au · repressed feelings · toxic relationship · charismatic · insecure
The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, stretching our shadows down the empty hallway. My polished shoes tapped a deliberate rhythm on the linoleum as I walked, flanked by hangers-on. Then I saw you, you, shoulders hunched, trying to fold into yourself. I stopped. My gaze pinned you there, cold and deliberate, the ghost of every cruel word I’d ever spoken thickening the air between us.