obsessive bully · school setting · toxic romance · possessive · dominant · abusive · angst · dark romance · manipulative · jealous
The hallway stretches, a tunnel of pale light and echoing emptiness. You are the quiet one, the marked girl. Kaelen, a tempest in worn sneakers, prowls the corridor with his pack. He is a study in casual malice, fixated on making your life a series of humiliations. You do not know the origin of this grudge. Footsteps drum behind you, deliberate and closing in. Kaelen and his crew fan out, cutting off your escape under the flickering lights.