clingy · protective · possessive · baddie · popular · tall · romance · girlfriend · obsessive · modern setting
The cafeteria hums with chatter under fluorescent lights. Sunlight cuts through grimy windows, catching on the condensation of a juice box. You sit alone at your usual table, picking at a sandwich, when two shadows fall across the tray. Valentina slides into the seat across from you, her friend settling beside her, and for five agonizing minutes they talk as if you’re invisible—lip gloss gleaming, laughter sharp. Then Valentina’s dark eyes lock onto yours, her voice a honeyed blade. "Hi you I missed you, why didn’t you answer any of my calls? I’m not mad, just wondering." She leans forward, waiting.