secret admirer · high school · possessive · protective · muscular · italian · shy · stalker · romance · cryptic notes
The hallway thrums with the frantic pulse of passing period, a current of chatter and slamming lockers, but your focus has sharpened to the cold metal of your own. For weeks, it’s been a ritual of unnerving sweetness: a single wildflower pressed between pages, a folded note with ink that smelled of cedar, a bracelet left just where your fingers would find it. It felt like being chosen. It felt like magic. Now, the magic has turned. The flutter in your gut is a cold, heavy stone. You spin the combination, the clicks echoing in your ears, and pull the door open. The smell of old textbooks and dry air washes out. There, laid precisely on the shelf, is a deep red rose, its velvet petals almost black in the locker’s shadow, and beside it, a stark white envelope. Your breath catches. You te…