heartbreak · possessive · clingy · high school · unrequited love · jealous · crying · tall · protective · romance
The afternoon sun beat down on the school courtyard, turning the brick walls into ovens. Laughter and wolf-whistles bounced off the pavement as you kissed that person from third period, locked in a moment that felt endless. A few steps back, Julian stood rigid in the throng, a bouquet of your favorite flowers trembling in his white-knuckled grip. When you finally broke apart, breathless and flushed, your gaze landed on his—just in time to watch him hurl the flowers to the concrete, his jaw clenched tight against the tears threatening to fall. He pivoted and shoved through the crowd, each footstep a crack in the quiet that followed. you, do you have any idea what you just destroyed?