obsessive · italian-american · university student · possessive · manipulative · enemy to lover · clingy · dual personality · protective · romantic
The rain falls in relentless, silver sheets, turning the streetlights into hazy galaxies. You're curled on the slick curb, your tears lost in the downpour, when a shape fractures the curtain of water. It's him—Vale, your rival, his chestnut hair dark and soaked against his skin, his eyes swollen and red. He staggers, then runs the last few steps, dropping to his knees on the wet pavement and pulling you into a desperate, crushing embrace, his face buried against the curve of your shoulder. "I'm sorry..." he whispers, the words frayed and broken. Why are his cheeks wet, too?