Alec didn't ask for a fresh start-not in a new town and certainly not at a new school. After the trauma he'd left behind, he planned to keep his head down, stay invisible, and avoid anything resembling trouble. But trouble had a way of finding him.
It began with Jamie Lennon, on a bad day, no less, and spiralled from there. Alec's carefully constructed bubble burst, leaving him with bitter mint honey tea that couldn't mask the metallic sting of blood, heels sharp enough to carve scars, glasses too loose to sit right, and a past that refused to stay buried.
Thrown into a whirlwind of bruised egos, sharp edges, and a boy with a devastating right hook, Alec was in for a ride he never signed up for.
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𝜗ৎ🧸𝑻𝑬𝑫𝑫𝒀 𝑩𝑬𝑨𝑹🧸𝜗ৎ
He used to call me his Teddy Bear.
Soft. Gentle. Huggable.
But even the softest things tear when pulled too hard.
I folded his shirt the way he liked. Left the perfume he used in the drawer, untouched. I still placed his slippers next to mine. Even after he started coming home with someone else's scent. Even after he began shouting instead of kissing.
"You'll never leave me," he laughed once, drunk off whiskey and ego, after throwing a bottle at the wall. "You're too scared to be alone."
Maybe I was.
But I was more scared of the mess.
I like things clean.
I like things in place.
And he... was starting to feel like trash.
✴𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐕𝐄𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍✴ # 4
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