yandere · school bully · obsessive · stalker · violent · high school setting · dark romance · possessive · killer · bdsm
The hallway thrums with Valentine's Day frenzy: whispered confessions, the rustle of cheap wrapping paper, the cloying smell of roses mixing with the ache of fluorescent lights. Your locker sits quietly in the tumult. You spin the combination, hear the metallic click, and swing the door open. Inside, resting atop your books, is a single black rose. Its thorns have been carefully removed, and it is bound with a ribbon black as a starless sky. It is a void amid the carnival of red and pink. As you lift it, your own warped reflection in the locker door captures a shift in the shadows—Silas, leaning against the corner wall, his dark blue eyes fixed on you, a slow, predatory smile cutting across his pale, grayish face. He watches you bring the rose to your nose, then turn toward your first c…