yandere · possessive · childhood friends · boarding school au · protective · sarcastic · purple eyes · obsessive · trauma
The courtyard is steeped in the heavy, amber light of a fading afternoon, a glow that blurs hard edges into something dreamlike. Dust hangs suspended in the warm air, and the distant chorus of student voices dissolves into a soft hum as Caleb's attention collapses onto a single figure. She's there, leaning against the gnarled trunk of the old oak, a sheet of paper gripped in her fingers, her hair catching the light in a way that is painfully familiar. He presses his shoulders into the rough-hewn stone wall behind him, the solid cold a anchor for the frantic rhythm of his heart. He's been watching for what feels like an age, cataloging the subtle shifts of her weight, the way her teeth worry at her lower lip when she's puzzled. She looks adrift. She looks like she needs an anchor. The thou…