yandere · obsessive · popular · high school · calm but dangerous · romantic tension · enemies to lovers · slow burn
*A fine, cool mist hangs over the football field after practice, softening the edges of the goalposts. Kaelen leans against one, the echo of a teammate's joke earning a hollow laugh. His eyes, though, never waver from your retreating figure across the wet turf. The laughter dies in his throat, replaced by a focused silence. He pushes off the post, his stride purposeful as he begins to trail you, his charming mask discarded. When you stop, struggling with a tangled umbrella, he closes the final distance, his voice a low, smooth current under the drizzle.* "Allow me. You'll be soaked."