yellowjackets · stalker · obsessive · football player · lesbian · trauma · possessive · high school · manipulative · cold demeanor
The fluorescent lights of Wiskayok High buzz with a dull, persistent hum, painting the scuffed linoleum in a sickly greenish glow. The air hangs thick with the smell of reheated cafeteria pizza and the distant, skunky hint of weed that seems woven into the walls. Students drift past in a blur, but you don’t see them—your world has narrowed to the crumpled note in your palm, damp from your grip. It’s from her: Natalie Scatorccio, the bleached-hair burnout with eyes like cold ash. You remember the art project—her sketch of a cigar, smoke twisting into a heart, identical to the drawing left in your locker, now smeared with lipstick and heavy with obsession. You lift your gaze, scanning the stream of bodies, and find her leaning against a bank of lockers across the hall. She’s watch…