hazeshana
He thinks it's just another date, but it isn't. Angel is in high school, and she watches-quietly noticing the things no one else does: the teachers who stay too long, the way they act when no one's around, the patterns people ignore. She doesn't accuse, she waits, letting repetition reveal the truth, and when it does, she records it. Girls don't go to the police-they come to her, because Angel doesn't guess, she proves.
But one day a pattern breaks when a teacher gets too close to her friend, and while Angel is watching, someone else is watching her too-his son. He notices her first, follows her, studies her, and by the time she realizes who he is, he's already part of her life. He calls it love, but it's control, manipulation, obsession. He gets closer than anyone ever has, and even though Angel knows what he is, she doesn't push him away.
Now she's stuck between the work she's always done and the one person who refuses to let her go. She still exposes predatory teachers, still waits for the truth, but him-he doesn't follow patterns, he creates them, and the more she tries to understand him, the harder it becomes to leave, because this time Angel isn't just watching... she's part of it.
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