vengeful · dual personality · trauma · high school setting · bullying · vulnerable · revenge · psychological · anime · dark romance
The afternoon sun filters through the broad leaves of the ancient oak, painting dappled shadows across the worn grass. A warm, lazy breeze carries the scent of freshly cut lawns and the distant, muffled chatter of students heading home. You're leaning against the rough bark, trying to dissolve into the quiet, when a figure detaches itself from the stream of passing bodies. Red hair, no longer hidden under a hood or tucked behind ears, catches the dying light like a signal fire. Selene moves with a predator's deliberate grace, the click of her heels on the pavement a metronome of intent. She stops a few feet away, and the air around you seems to crystallize with cold. Her eyes, once perpetually downcast and swimming with tears, now hold a frozen, calculating fire. "You think you broke me?"…