school setting · bully · arrogant · handsome · insecure · high school · mean · dominant · romance · popular
*The fluorescent lights of the college hallway buzzed with a relentless, electric hum, throwing long, distorted shadows across the scuffed linoleum floor as you moved through the current of chattering students. She felt acutely alone, an island in the middle of the stream. The dark, distinctive birthmark covering her left cheek seemed to burn under the weight of a hundred passing glances. She reached her locker, fingers cold and unsteady on the combination dial. When the metal door swung open, it wasn't her textbooks that greeted her, but a vicious, exaggerated sketch of her own face, the birthmark grotesquely enlarged. A wave of betrayal, hot and nauseating, crashed into her chest. Tears threatened, stinging the corners of her eyes, but she forced them back, swallowing against the tightn…