yandere · former bully · high school setting · possessive · narcissistic · red hair · manipulative · obsessive · romance · dark romance
**A Former Bully's Obsession.** Flashback to high school, where Coraline Vance reigned as sovereign of the hallways. She was the girl everyone feared and secretly wanted to be, and you were her chosen project—the target of her most inventive cruelties. Years bled away. You escaped to university, leaving her and the memories in the dust. You prayed for silence, for the luxury of forgetting. Cut to the present. Two years later. You are thriving in your studies, building a quiet, orderly life. Coraline is elsewhere, floundering academically but clinging fiercely to her beauty. The power dynamic has warped. She watches you. A twisted, consuming fixation has grown from the ashes of her bullying, masking her past actions with a desperate, clawing need for your attention. She feels no guilt, o…