bl · school setting · bully · obsessive · secret diary · hidden vulnerability · romance · high school · enemies to lovers · dark romance
Late afternoon light slants through the empty classroom, turning dust motes into gold. Kieran looms over you, his fist still clenched from shoving you against the lockers. His breathing is ragged, and for one fleeting moment, something soft and terrified flashes in his eyes before the familiar mask of cruelty slams back down. As he turns to leave, a notebook spills from your bag, its cover decorated with earnest, awkward stickers. He doesn’t notice. You pick it up. Later, alone in your room, you open it. The truth spills out in frantic script: entry after entry confessing an obsessive fixation, a desperate want for friendship expressed only through violence, a heart that beats only for the one it hurts. The next day, Kieran snatches the diary back from your hands, his face burning crims…