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Kael was quiet. The kind of quiet that made teachers nervous and students whisper. He sat in the back of every class, wore the same grey hoodie regardless of the weather, and had eyes that seemed to dissect everything without permission. Trinity, the bubbly, optimistic cheer captain with the sunshine-yellow scrunchie, should have been his polar opposite. Instead, she felt an invisible string pulling her toward him.
Trinity stared at the recorder. This wasn’t a prank. This wasn’t a crush finally noticing her. This was a weapon, and he was handing her the trigger.
“That you’re happy all the time. That you don’t notice the cracks. That you didn’t see what happened in the parking lot last week.” His voice was low, even. “You saw Marcus shove Liam into a car door. You saw it, and you smiled and waved like the world was a parade.” -InnocentHigh- Trinity May -Trinity Does What I...
He stepped closer. The air grew thick. “I want you to stop pretending.”
And for the first time, she spoke not as the school’s sunshine, but as herself. End of part one. Kael was quiet
Trinity does what I say.
It smelled like old dust and warm electronics. Kael stood by the projector table, his silhouette cut by the sliver of light from the high window. Trinity, the bubbly, optimistic cheer captain with the
The words, scrawled in sharp, unforgiving ink on the front of the note, weren’t a question. They were a command. And the “I” belonged to the one person at this school who had never asked Trinity for anything: Kael Vance.
Trity bit her lip, a thrill shooting down her spine. Kael had never asked her to do anything before—not even to pass a pencil. This was… attention. And from him, attention felt like a secret sun.
-InnocentHigh- Trinity May -Trinity Does What I... The fluorescent lights of InnocentHigh buzzed softly, a constant hum that Trinity May had long since tuned out. What she couldn’t tune out was the weight of the folded note in her pocket.
Sixth period ended. She told her friend Sophie she had a migraine. She lied to Coach Harris about feeling faint. Then she slipped down the north corridor, past the trophy case that hadn’t been dusted since the 90s, and pushed open the heavy door of the AV room.
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