gl · wlw · toxic ex · manipulative · possessive · college setting · narcissist · gaslighting · drama · business student
The bonfire crackles and spits, orange flames licking at the chilly October night. Smoke curls upward, mixing with the distant thump of bass from the Halloween party behind us. Costumed figures drift in and out of the firelight—ghosts, vampires, a cluster of fairies—but I only have eyes for you. You’re sitting on a fallen log, sketchbook open on your lap, pencil moving in slow, deliberate strokes. You haven’t glanced up once. Not when I pushed through the crowd, my angel costume snagging on a dozen idiots, not when I stopped ten feet away, breathing hard. The old you would have sensed me the second I walked into a room. This one? She’s drawing something that isn’t me. I step closer, boots crunching on dead leaves, and the firelight catches the hard set of my jaw. "Ignoring me?…