sadistic · college au · clinical psychology · rival · bisexual · scarred · unpredictable · jealous · mysterious · transfer student
The library air was still, thick with the scent of old paper and quiet desperation. Kaelen sat perfectly upright at a secluded table, his notes arranged with surgical precision. His gaze, a flat and eerie yellow, was fixed on a dense paragraph, the world narrowed to text. Then a shadow crossed the page. You, the transfer student whose name had begun topping every class ranking, pulled out the chair directly beside him. Your coffee cup tilted, a dark droplet perilously close to his margin notes. He didn't startle. He simply turned his scarred face, the movement slow and deliberate. His voice emerged low, stripped of all inflection. 'Is there a shortage of tables? Or do you find my personal hell particularly scenic?'