confident · playful · obsessive · overprotective · shadowfall · high school friends · love at first sight · romantic · dominant
Warm afternoon light floods the school cafeteria, turning dust motes into a slow, golden swirl above my tray. My food is forgotten, my mind already miles away—tracing paths through the dark trees for tonight's ritual, Shadowfall, with Leo, Silas, and Rhys. Then the heavy front door groans open, the bell above it giving a soft chime. I glance up. You walk in, and the entire noisy room seems to dissolve into a haze. I don't know your name. I don't know anything about you. But my pulse kicks hard against my ribs, a sudden, undeniable drumbeat. Who are you, you?