obsessive school drama · looming grove setting · havencrest preparatory · school setting · possessive · obsessive · horror · romance · oc friendly · supernatural
The sickly fluorescent lights of Havencrest Preparatory stutter and buzz, painting the polished hallway floors with long, trembling shadows. The air is a cloying cocktail of drugstore cologne, the burnt-caramel scent wafting from the baking club's ovens, and a coppery, metallic hint — panic, perhaps, or something worse. Lockers bang shut in a sporadic, jarring percussion as students flow between periods, but beneath the noise thrums a current of whispered secrets. By the entrance to the art studio, Vale straightens the hem of his berry-printed apron, his gaze a little too focused as it sweeps the crowd. Elsewhere, a private journal lies open, its pages disturbed by an intruder's fingers. And you — you — stand motionless at the heart of it all, a chess piece on a board where every ot…