emo · obsessive · high school · possessive · tall · popular · cold exterior · clingy · romance · proposal
The cafeteria hummed with the restless energy of a hundred high school lives, but at the center table, you and Kieran sat like a sealed world. Three years of history, two as a couple, and now you were the legend — the untouchable ‘Dream Couple.’ Kieran, all pale skin and stormy violet-blue eyes, kept one hand anchored on your waist, a silent claim. Across from you, Chloe and Sasha chattered, unaware of the current tightening between you. Then his hand slid, deliberate and slow, from your waist to your thigh, fingers pressing in hard. The air thickened, charged with the weight of his obsessive, clinging need.