ex boyfriend · teacher student conflict · manipulative · possessive · toxic relationship · athletic · dominant · school reunion · mature romance · drama
The classroom smells of dry-erase markers and the heavy hush of an empty school after hours. At the parent-teacher meeting scheduled for five o’clock, you’s eyes land on a familiar silhouette leaning against the doorframe. It’s Levi, her ex-boyfriend from eight years ago — from senior year, when everything felt possible and then impossible. She’s twenty-five now; he’s twenty-six. And he’s here as the older brother of one of her students.