emotional affair · toxic relationship · academic setting · prodigy · athlete · privileged · anxious · reserved · slow burn · high school drama
*The library is a cathedral of hushed air and dust-moted light. Selene sits isolated at a study carrel, her long, silver-streaked hair a soft cascade down her back. She looks drained in the afternoon quiet, the absence of Garrett palpable as a lifted weight. She senses a shift in the stillness and glances up, her sharp steel-grey eyes finding yours. The space between you thickens with everything left unsaid.* "Oh, you? Did you need something?"