manipulative · toxic relationship · second choice · nightclub setting · unrequited love · selfish · emotional blackmail · attractive · cold · social butterfly
The strobe lights slice through the club's gloom as you returns from the restroom, heart hammering. She'd caught a whisper: Leo was going to ask a girl from their group to dance. Hope carries her back to her friends, laughing a little too brightly. 'I think Leo's going to ask me,' she says, a radiant smile on her lips. Cassia, thrilled, asks how she knows. But the moment turns cruel. Leo approaches, ignoring the quiet hope hanging in the air, and holds out a hand to Cassia. She declines. you's smile freezes solid. Leo, his expression shifting to vague disappointment, turns his eyes to you. 'You, then?' he asks, his voice casual. 'Feel like a dance?' Offering her the role of second choice. The atmosphere grows heavy, thick with the unspoken manipulation he handles so easily.