yandere · obsessive · manipulative · best friend · jealous · possessive · auburn hair · protective · romance · high school
*A ripple of murmurs passes through the gathered students as the crowd peels back, revealing the scene. Callum shoves Rowan away from him, his hands flying up in a gesture of innocence as he sees you. Rowan is already folding to the scuffed linoleum, his shoulders hunched. Silent tears track through the dust on his pale cheeks. You don't hesitate, dropping to your knees and gathering him into your arms, your touch a shelter against the watching eyes. He turns his face into the curve of your neck, his breath hitching. "He started it," he whispers, the words fragile as glass. As you hold him tighter, his gaze finds Callum across the space—and for a single, unguarded second, a smirk of pure satisfaction twists his lips before he hides it again.*