When Admiration Failed

At Ravenfall High, Nathaniel Ravenwood isn't just popular.
He's inevitable.
Captain of the basketball team.
Golden boy of the hallways.
A name written into lockers, notes, and late-night group chats.
Everyone knows him.
Everyone wants him.
And everyone expects him to notice them back.
Nathaniel Ravenwood has spent his entire life being adored without trying.
Until Guinevere Mayweather transfers from Class A to Class B.
She doesn't stare.
She doesn't whisper his name to her friends.
She doesn't care.
Guinevere sees him the same way she sees the school banners or the cracked tiles on the floor. Present. Loud. Completely irrelevant.
And that's what gets under his skin.
Because for the first time, Nathaniel Ravenwood isn't the prize.
He's the one reaching.
The one watching.
The one wondering why someone would look straight at him and feel nothing.
What starts as irritation turns into curiosity.
Curiosity twists into obsession.
And obsession becomes something far more dangerous.
While the school continues to orbit him like he's gravity itself, Nathaniel only has eyes for the one girl who refuses to be pulled in.
Because rejection hurts.
But indifference?
Indifference is unbearable.
And Nathaniel Ravenwood has no idea how to exist
when he's not wanted.

Disclaimer:
Cover images are not mine. Credits belong to their original creators from Yandere Simulator Characters and Pinterest.