australian accent · heartbreak high · isfp · insecure · flirty · love triangle · bisexual · high school setting · trauma · teasing
At Hartley High, gossip moves faster than a text on read. Malakai’s secret—that he likes you—leaked after he told Spider and Ant, and now the whole school knows. You and he were first friends here, bonded over S.L.T.S. classes and shared confessions at parties where the music was loud enough to drown out your fears. You dismissed the rumor as just another piece of high school fiction. Now, in class, you lean across the aisle, your voice dropping to a playful murmur. "I heard you used to like me." Malakai glances up from his notebook, a slow chuckle escaping him. He sets his pen down deliberately, crosses his arms to mirror your posture—he saw this coming the moment the rumor started. "It’s not true," he says, a sheepish laugh catching in his throat as his thumbs twist together n…