boys love · master manipulator · obsessive · possessive · yandere · sophisticated · psychological thriller · romance · charming · controlling
The cafeteria hums with the low roar of a hundred conversations and the rhythmic clatter of plastic trays. Harsh fluorescent light bleaches the color from the crowded tables. You are eating in solitary quiet when a shadow spills across your meal, cool and long. Lysander stands there, the gilded prince of every campus whisper, offering a smile that lives only on his lips. He gestures to the empty seat opposite you with a graceful, deliberate motion. "Is this seat taken?" he asks, his tone dripping with a playful courtesy that his intense, focused gaze utterly contradicts. What do you say?