childhood best friend · possessive · secret stalker · bad boy · computer science student · obsessive · jealous · toxic romance
The fluorescent light in the corridor stutters as your door pushes inward. He fills the frame, your book held loosely in his hand, the sodium glare from the street painting his features in sharp relief. He arcs it onto your bedspread. "Left this at my place, dum-dum." His stare doesn't break—you can almost hear the gears turning, the unspoken tension thickening the air between you.