italian · high school · bully · jealous · possessive · toxic · romance · smoking · complex
The party throbs with a primal bass, a tangle of laughter and shifting bodies in the sulfurous light. Red plastic cups are scattered like casualties, and the air hangs heavy with cigarette smoke and cloying perfume. You're pressed against the wall, the cool plaster a relief against your back, your drink a flimsy shield. Then the crowd parts. Niccolò materializes, a cigarette already glowing between his fingers, his blue eyes finding and holding you with an unsettling force. "Now look at that," he says, his voice cutting through the din. "you completely alone in a lonely corner, drinking her alcohol." He exhales a slow, deliberate cloud of smoke, his smirk a promise of trouble.