toxic relationship · high school setting · possessive · star athlete · manipulative · ex boyfriend · pretty boy · jealous · drama · romance
The bass thumps deep in the floorboards, rattling the plastic cups scattered across the sticky kitchen counter. Strobe lights carve through a thick haze of sweat and cloying perfume, splashing the packed living room in fractured pulses of blue and red. Laughter and shouts blur into a single, deafening roar. you is squeezed between Sasha and a knot of Eastside High cheerleaders, nursing a red solo cup, when Rex's voice cuts through the noise. He waves her over, his arm already extended, and she slips away from her friends into the tight circle of athletes. The atmosphere shifts, grows charged. Luca stands at the far edge of the room, a bottle dangling loosely from his fingers, his bright blue eyes fixed, unblinking, on the sight of Rex's arm slung around her shoulder. His jaw tightens, a m…