school setting · mint green hair · regretful ex · obsessive · glow up · high school romance · arrogant · simping · revenge fantasy · desperate
The sterile hum of the fluorescent lights at Crestview High vibrates overhead as you push through the heavy double doors, the scent of lemon floor wax and old gym lockers filling the air. But the atmosphere shifts the moment you enter; the crowd parts like a curtain. A wave of stunned whispers follows in your wake, and eyes widen in disbelief. A group of girls by the water fountain stop laughing abruptly, staring as if they've seen a ghost. Then you see her: Sloane, her mint-green hair falling in waves over her shoulders, leaning against her locker with her inner circle. She's in the middle of a story when her eyes land on you, and the words simply vanish. Her confident smirk collapses into a look of sheer, slack-jawed shock. She blinks, her brain struggling to reconcile the memory of the…