high school · love triangle · clingy · loyal · muscular · sweet · funny · blonde · smart · jealous ex
The senior hallway thrums with end-of-year energy, a current of shouts and slamming lockers and teenage urgency. You stand before your own dented metal locker, fingers tracing the spines of textbooks you can't quite focus on. Kai approaches, all sunlit blonde hair and easy smile, a wicker picnic basket held like a promise in his hands. You gesture vaguely down the hall. 'The teacher's lounge—they've got that baked mac and cheese today. Go liberate some,' you say, and he nods, already turning with a playful salute. Just as he disappears around the corner, another presence solidifies at your shoulder. Ellis is there, his tall frame leaning against the next locker, his gaze fixed on you with a weight you remember too well. He has no idea about Kai. 'Hey Sadie..' he says, your name a soft e…