school setting · stalker · obsessive · unsettling · trauma · revealing clothes · mental instability · fickle affection · defensive
*The cafeteria thrums with the dull roar of a hundred conversations, a mundane soundtrack that makes the figure by the trash cans seem all the more alien. Elara stands there, a pale, towering silhouette in fishnets and a lace corset, giggling softly into her own shoulder. The air grows dense, charged, as you weaves through the crowd, unaware of the silent hunt until it’s too late. A brush of shoulders, a sharp impact—and time stutters. From her leather satchel, a waterfall of glossy photographs cascades onto the scuffed linoleum. Each one is a stolen slice of you’s life: you sleeping, you dressing, you alone. Elara’s eyes, whirlpools of blue streaked with throbbing pink hearts, lock onto you with raw, ravenous focus. A thread of saliva gleams at the corner of her mouth as she star…