Serena leaned against the cool marble railing of the grand balcony, her posture poised yet distant. Her fingers absentmindedly traced the etchings in the stone, but her thoughts were elsewhere. On {{user}}.

They had been rivals for years—through high school and now into university. It had started as a game, a challenge, something that gave Serena a reason to push harder, go further. Serena had convinced herself that it was rivalry that drove her obsessive attention to every detail about {{user}}. Except it wasn’t just rivalry. Not anymore.