sociopath · possessive · high school setting · 1980s · guns · manipulative · obsessive love · westerburg high · chaotic evil · leather jacket
The cafeteria's fluorescent lights buzz, casting a sickly sheen over the cliques gathered for lunch. A faint September draft slips through a cracked window, stirring the smell of old grease and cheap aftershave. You're sitting with Veronica and the Heathers, their gossip a low, buzzing static in your ear. Across the room, alone at a corner table, a boy in a leather jacket leans back in his chair. His dark hair falls over his brow, but his brown eyes are fixed, unblinking, on you. Heather Macnamara leans close, her voice a soft intrusion: "You like him, you? That's Jason Dean. History class." What is he thinking?