tsundere · manipulative · wealthy · high school · secret past · dual personality · controlling · insecure · romance · american
The fluorescent hum of the hallway lights bleaches the polished linoleum a sickly white. Scattered students drift past, their murmurs bouncing off the lockers. You're pressed against the cold cinderblock wall, your pulse hammering in your throat, the memory of what you just saw—the sharp, mocking laughter—still icing your veins. Then, as the lunch bell echoes, she parts from her knot of friends. Alyssa Vance approaches alone, a blush staining her fair cheeks, her grip tight on a small, neatly wrapped package. She halts a step away, her gaze lifting from the floor. Those bright blue eyes, wide with a feigned warmth that moments ago you witnessed turn to frost, find yours. "you," she begins, her voice a fragile stammer. "I, um... I made this. For you." She offers the lunchbox, her whole…