confident · cocky · smoker · school setting · popular · ex lover · complicated past · toxic relationship · fake friends · betrayal
The Halloween party in Rome throbs under neon lights, bass shaking the floor. You push through a crush of costumes, the air heavy with smoke and cloying perfume. Leaning against the wall by the bathrooms is a skeleton-faced figure, blue eyes locking onto yours like a snare. A cigarette hangs from his painted lips. Niccolo never expected you to be here, did he?