-Vaughn Blackmore:
I just stood there.
Completely still.
Trying to process what he had just said to me, but it didn't settle properly in my head at first. It felt like my brain was refusing to accept it, like the words were too heavy or too strange to fully translate into something real.
Kieran… likes Ryland?
That part alone should've been the shocking thing. It should've been the headline of everything he just admitted.
But it wasn't.
Because that wasn't what made everything in my chest tighten in a weird, uncomfortable way.
It was the rest of it.
The history behind it.
The reason behind everything he had done to me up until now suddenly shifted into something else entirely. Something that didn't feel random anymore. Something that didn't feel like simple hostility or camp rivalry or personality clash.
It felt… targeted.
Personal, in a way I hadn't understood at the time.
And now I was looking at him differently without even meaning to.
