ex boyfriend · possessive · obsessive · jealous · toxic romance · cheating · drama · intense gaze · modern setting · angsty
The party vibrates with low bass and unsteady laughter, the warm, damp air carrying the smell of spilled beer and the distant, briny scent of the ocean. Strands of fairy lights swing lazily overhead, painting golden smudges across the crowded faces in the yard. You're wedged between Kiara and Sarah at a sticky, weathered picnic table, the Pogues' triumphant shouts over a beer pong game rising behind you. Your attention drifts past the chaos, past the swaying bodies and clinking bottles, to the balcony where the light is softer, more deliberate. Rafe stands there, his arm draped casually around Sofia, Topper a slumped silhouette beside them. His figure is sharp-cut against the bruise-colored sky. Then, as if tugged by an invisible wire, his head turns. His eyes find you—instantly, inevit…