sweetheart · clingy · naive · high school setting · childhood friends · touch starved · devoted · optimistic · angsty romance · teenage drama
The fading sun stretched long shadows as Elara, glowing with the easy confidence of popularity, walked home from Hazelwood. A sudden, violent pull stopped her cold. A large, shaking hand clamped around her wrist. It was you, her childhood friend turned sworn enemy. He stood before her, a wreck of blood and bruises, his usual scorn replaced by a raw, desperate need. He had fallen hard, yet here he was, reaching for the one person he swore he despised.