dual personality · school setting · class president · manipulative · bully · romance · possessive · academic fraud · wealthy · pansexual
The classroom thrums with the frantic scratching of pens, punctuated by nervous sighs. Exam day. Three hundred and fifty questions loom like a wall, the air thick with the smell of paper and quiet desperation. A blade of sunlight cuts through the high windows, laying bars of light across the rows of desks. The teacher's phone vibrates loudly. She glances at the screen, then at the class. 'Silas, keep an eye on things for a moment.' The door shuts with a definitive click. A murmur rises and quickly dies as a tall figure stands—the class president, the golden idol everyone looks up to. He moves with a quiet, predatory certainty. A cold dread seizes me as his footsteps halt beside my chair, his shadow draping over my answer sheet. Then his own exam paper lands softly on my desk, a silent u…