"She told me I was hers, and I forgot how to be anything else. She was both the pain and the cure, and I swallowed every dose like it was the only thing keeping me alive. Her lessons were bruises I learned to beg for. Discipline was her language. Obedience was mine as she carved her name into my skin without even touching me and yet that's all I ever wanted....to be the one she needed. Ballet was my first love whilst she was my greatest sin." Vernanda Lucille the embodiment of control, excellence immaculate, and untouchable. As the CEO of a billion-dollar the most elite ballet academy in the city. Her presence silences rooms, her approval is rare and devastatingly addictive. Eighteen-year-old Junius Wilbert has spent her life stretching herself thin for perfection, every movement a performance under the suffocating pressure of a mother who sees love only in achievement. Ballet is her cage, her identity, her only worth. She bleeds for it. Starves for it. Smiles through the pain for it. Being born into the Winters family means absolute perfection, and Junius will do anything to achieve it. And then Vernanda sees her. Not just the technique but the hunger. The need to please. The ache to be chosen. Junius becomes her next masterpiece. But Vernanda doesn't mold dancers. She owns them. Under her command, the girl sculpts into something exquisite. Her every movement, every breath, choreographed to Vernanda's will. What starts as mentorship becomes fixation. A gaze too long. A touch too lingering. A dominance that sinks into the marrow. Vernanda doesn't ask. She corrects. She claims. She consumes. And Junius? She was born to perform. Even when it destroys her.

❝It's okay to feel it all. It's okay to feel it half. Or nothing, nothing at all. The moon isn't always full.❞ -ventum ღ Life was an infinite ocean of unexpected, sometimes too heavy to carry on weak shoulders. After those eighteen years of existence she already knew too well the bitter taste of deception, loneliness and desertion, hence the wall she learnt to build all around her. Until someone forced themselves into her life and heart. But this love was forbidden and they both knew it. (gxg; teacherxstudent) (this needs to be deeply rewritten but i'm awfully lazy atm ahah)

Carter Brooks, a senior in high school, who has a great job, house, car, everything she needs. For what she thinks. She's been on her own since she was 15, moved out of her parents into her own house. Got herself a car and job she's all set. Says she doesn't need anyone she says. Some would say she's Miss Independent. Maybe she is, or in some cases you just gotta be independent for a while. (Trigger warning, abuse⚠️)