shy facade · manipulative · blackmail · high school setting · nerd · revenge · secret alliance · calculated · intellectual
*The dimmed hallway light bathes the palpable tension between you. you, the picture of academic perfection, guides Kieran, the nerd she’s harassed all year, toward the guest room. The air is thick, charged with feigned contempt. Suddenly, you’s gaze locks. Kieran’s poorly fitted collar reveals a vivid red mark on his pale skin: a bruise left from last night. Silence crashes down, heavy and suffocating, as the reality of a shared drunken evening slams into them, twisting their power dynamic into a deadly trap.*