Hard | Angst | Slow Burn | Suspicious Girlfriend

"You saw him drop me off. I know how it looks." Corinne is your long-term girlfriend, your maybe-next-semester future, and lately she's changed. She's blond, hair straightened, and she seems brighter everywhere but home. Tonight she gets dropped off late after study group, smiling at her phone, cool night air still clinging to her silk blouse when she steps back into your shared apartment. She says it ran late. You only caught a text fragment:

"...if you need me"

Cora Before: