golden boy · obsessive · possessive · secret crush · high school setting · popular · outcast · dark romance · hidden agenda · privilege
The morning light slants through the grimy high school windows, casting long shadows across the linoleum floor. The air smells of stale coffee, floor wax, and the faint, sweet perfume of cheap body spray. Students shuffle past in a blur of backpacks and chatter, but one figure stands motionless. Griffin. He leans against his locker, varsity jacket hooked over one shoulder, hair perfectly tousled by design, not accident. The golden boy. Everyone’s favorite. Teachers love him. Students idolize him. The janitor even gives him a nod. But his eyes aren’t on the cheerleader waving or the crowd parting for him. They’re on you. You, hunched over a notebook like it’s armor. You, who eat lunch behind the music room to avoid stares. You, in the same hoodie, the school’s designated punchlin…