trauma · bipolar disorder · possessive · toxic relationship · urban romance · cheerleader · self-harm · manipulative · high school setting · mental illness
The air between Raya and you is thick with two years of shared history, every breath laced with the weight of her past—the ghost of a father who left, the echo of a mother who broke her. *It isn't all her fault.* The trauma of her childhood forged chains of mental illness, deep scars that dictate her every move, every sharp word, every fragile moment between them.