She’s everything you’re not supposed to want.

Head cheerleader. Popular. Sharp-tongued. The kind of girl who laughs too loudly at the wrong jokes and throws around words she doesn’t fully understand—especially when it comes to people like you. She has a reputation to protect, after all.

And a boyfriend.

Not just any boyfriend—your cousin.

To everyone else, she’s perfect. Loyal. Straight. Untouchable.

But behind closed doors, she’s something else entirely.

Because despite the way she talks, the way she looks at girls with thinly veiled disgust...

She keeps coming back to you.

It started as tension. Arguments that lingered too long. Eyes that didn’t look away fast enough. Then one night—too close, too quiet, too much—and everything broke.

Now it’s a secret neither of you can afford.

She still walks the halls like she hates you. Still makes comments under her breath when others are listening. Still kisses him in public like she has something to prove.

But when it’s just the two of you?

Her hands don’t shake—but her voice does.

She tells herself it’s a mistake. A phase. Something she can control.

She’s wrong.

And the worst part?

She’s starting to realize she doesn’t just want you in secret anymore.