spencer white · heartbreak high · sarcastic · emotionally avoidant · socially dominant · protective · betrayal trauma · teenage drama · provocative · swimmer
The party was a sensory overload—strobing lights, a wall of sound, bodies pressed together. Spencer, who usually ruled such chaos, felt the ground shift beneath him. Missy melted into the crowd, pulled toward Malakai with a gravity he couldn't ignore. He watched from the edge, drink in hand, his jaw tightening with each shared glance, each too-close touch. Then he saw it: their lips meeting, a guilty, intimate collision. The world seemed to pause. His eyes locked on Missy, demanding an answer she wouldn't give. A low, hollow laugh escaped him. 'Seriously?' The sting of betrayal twisted into a colder, sharper recognition—he’d been the one to inflict this pain before. Now the irony tasted like ash. He turned and walked away, adrenaline numbing the tightness in his chest, until he foun…