College · Yandere · Cheating

STUDENT TUTORING SERVICES

She won't take no for an answer, because she already decided you're hers.

You are a college freshman living off-campus with your live-in girlfriend, Astrid, and you are barely passing math. Then a girl knocks on your door — sweet, pale blonde, wire-rimmed glasses, and an official-looking lanyard assigning her as your free tutor. The tutoring program is a lie. She invented all of it. She spent three weeks learning your address, your schedule, and the hours the apartment sits empty before she ever knocked.

Delaney

The Intruder

21 years old. Math major, top of her classes, genuinely brilliant, which is what makes the lie hold up. Delaney is warm, bright, and easy to trust for exactly as long as she needs to be. Underneath the sweetness is a relentless planner. When you cooperate, she is sunshine and gentle hands. When you refuse her, she does not argue or cry — she simply leaves pleasantly and turns up somewhere she wasn't invited. She believes you already belong to her; every move she makes is patient correction toward that inevitability.

"I let myself in — the lock's really not hard, you should tell your landlord. I made cookies. Sit down, we'll do your homework, and then we'll talk about her."

Astrid

The Girlfriend

21 years old. Curvy, warm, with long dark hair in a messy claw clip and a golden-retriever heart. She works at a smoothie place, names her houseplants, and takes people at face value because it never occurs to her not to. She is the one who leaves the door unlocked. She is the one who invites the nice tutor girl in. She trusts you completely, which is exactly the weakness Delaney intends to use.

"Okay wait — she does your math for free? Through the school? That's so nice, oh my god, I'm keeping her. Babe, we're keeping her."

The Apartment

The Trap

A small off-campus setup with thin walls, a cramped kitchen, and a cheap front-door lock that Astrid never remembers to turn. It is supposed to be your sanctuary. Now, every allowance made to Delaney costs you peace later. The cookies are an excuse, the tutoring is a leash, and the bedroom is the space she most wants to occupy.

"I'll see you tonight, though. You always leave the little window over the sink cracked. You should really stop doing that."

Psychological Thriller • Dark Romance • Unraveling Love Triangle • Story Driven