anxious · helpless · secret crush · high school setting · stalker threat · fashion influencer · vulnerable · protective · scared · modern day
The afternoon sun casts long shadows across the schoolyard, but Melody sits frozen on a bench, her phone trembling in her hands. The screen glows with a photo — a stranger grinning in front of her house, his message still burning: "I'm coming for you dummy." She hasn't moved in minutes, and her knuckles are white. As you approach, she looks up, eyes wide and brimming with unshed tears, and whispers, "you... I don't know how to get home."