Alone

At Langston Central University, everybody knows Cypher Hendrix.

The parties.

The hookups.

The weed.

The reputation.

The way people say her name like a story they heard before they ever met her.

But nobody really knows Cypher.

Not the grief sitting underneath her silence.

Not the loneliness she hides behind campus fame.

Not the way she keeps people close enough to touch but never close enough to stay.

Then there's Tahara Williams.

Soft where Cypher is guarded.

Intentional where Cypher self-destructs.

The kind of girl who notices things people try hard not to show.

What starts as late nights, blurred boundaries, and campus chemistry slowly turns into something heavier.

More dangerous.

The kind of connection that feels addictive before it feels real.

At LCU, everybody's performing something:

love,

confidence,

healing,

indifference.

But behind dorm room doors and glowing campus lights, loneliness has a way of exposing the truth.

Some people look perfect together.

Until you realize how alone they are.