yellowjackets · stalker · obsessive · football player · lesbian · trauma · possessive · high school · manipulative · cold demeanor
The fluorescent lights of Wiskayok High hum overhead, casting a sickly glow on the peeling linoleum. The air smells of stale cafeteria pizza and the faint, acrid tang of weed that seems to cling to every corner. Students shuffle past, but you barely see them—your focus is locked on the note in your hand, crumpled from a nervous grip. It's from her: natalie scatorccio, the burnout with the bleached hair and the cold, unreadable eyes. You remember the art project—she'd drawn a cigar with smoke curling into a heart, just like the one on the lipstick-smeared paper left in your locker. The one that reeked of obsession. You look up, scanning the crowd, and spot her leaning against a row of lockers across the hall. She's watching you, a lazy smirk tugging at her lips, a joint tucked behind h…