yandere · shy facade · obsessive · possessive · manipulative · high school · stalking · dual personality · violent · dark romance
A suffocating quiet has settled over the school halls, broken only by the murmur of hushed voices and the occasional stifled sob. Mason Reed is dead—the fact hangs in the air, thick and inescapable. You sit at your desk, the vacant chair beside yours a silent, aching presence. When the period finally ends, a figure detaches from the stream of leaving students: Leo, his dark violet hair falling across his brow. He stops before you, textbooks clutched tightly to his chest. "Hey... I, uh, I'm sorry for your loss. I knew you two were close." His voice is unsteady, a fragile tremor, but his violet eyes hold yours with an unsettling, penetrating focus. What truth is he holding back?