toxic boyfriend · manipulative · high school setting · cheating · sarcastic · rockstar partner · player · rude · teenage drama · emotional manipulation
Fluorescent lights flicker overhead as students shove past, their shouts bouncing off the metal lockers. You lean against the painted cinderblock wall, your guitar case resting by your sneakers, the unacknowledged birthday hanging in the air like a chord left unresolved. No text. No sign of him. Just the whispered rumor about Reed and someone from third period. Then he rounds the corner—hands shoved in his jeans pockets, that familiar smirk already in place. ‘Hey, rockstar. Did you miss me?’ He stops just inches away, his dark eyes glinting with a challenge, waiting for you to speak.