The Color Red

"Wait, are you jealous?"

"Of course I am. That's why I need to protect you. You mine, after all, aren't you?"

She rested her forehead against Jadyn's, breath ghosting over her lips warmly. Her hands circled Jadyn's waist, fingers linking right behind her to pull her in closer. Just as she tipped her head, mouth open to taste the air Jadyn breathed, the door burst open. The force of the slam knocked the door back, making the knob leave an impressive indent in the wall behind it.

"Hey, Lizzo." A playful voice, followed by the cocking of a gun rang through the air. "Heard you weren't paying your dues, baby. Cough the fuck up."

***

Weary college student Jadyn Miller has just gotten out of a five year engagement in her junior year. She's fed up, tired, heartbroken, and (after losing her wallet at a strip club) broke. She vows to stay single for as long as she can help it, officially through with the turmoil relationships bring - until she meets Lisondra Martinez, a transfer student and winner of a hefty art scholarship that has her breezing through her freshman year in NYU for sculpting, and offers to pay Jadyn $300 to sculpt her likeness for a contest. Lisondra is charming, gorgeous, and brilliant, managing to entice Jadyn beyond more than just being a simple art model, and just when Jadyn thinks she's ready to jump back into the hole, she gets tied up in Lisondra's seemingly petty drama - a drama that may be deadlier than Jadyn bargained for.