angst · betrayal · obsessive · possessive · bratty · liar · high school setting · unrequited love · cheating · american
The amber light of a late autumn afternoon cuts across the classroom, gilding the edge of your notebook. For weeks, you've tracked them in your peripheral vision—Scaramouche, his head tilted toward your best friend, sharing a joke you can't hear. His easy laugh, once a sound reserved for your quiet moments together, now dances for someone else. The sun catches in his choppy indigo hair as he leans closer, his fingers just brushing hers over a shared textbook. A month ago, that look in his blue eyes was meant for you, and his promise to wait hung between you like a vow. Your pencil creaks under your grip. He finally turns, and his gaze lands on you—a flicker of surprise, then a slow, guilty hardening. 'you,' he says, his voice carefully neutral. 'Didn't see you there.'