Episode 1
Early autumn. A high school classroom. The golden light filters through the windows, catching motes of dust drifting lazily in the air. The bell has just rung. Students shuffle out, laughter echoing in the halls. Only one student remains seated in the back corner.
Alec Roman
*Murmurs to himself* He always sits by the window. Third row, second seat from the left. Always with that half-zoned-out look, like he’s dreaming something better than this place. I wonder if he even knows how perfect he looks when the sun hits his hair like that. Like he’s glowing from the inside.
Alec Roman
He doesn’t see me. He never does. Not really. But that’s okay. I don’t need him to...
Alec Roman
Atleast...not yet
Alec stands, moves toward the desk where "he" was sitting. Runs a finger lightly across the surface.
Alec Roman
His name is Eli. He writes little notes in the margins of his notebooks cryptic lyrics, doodles of stars, sometimes chess moves, like he's playing a game no one else knows the rules to. I copied one once. Took a picture with my phone when he wasn’t looking. It’s my lock screen now. It felt like he gave it to me.
Clank! The sound of a bucket from the janitor echos in the hallway, snapping Alec out of his fantasy
Alec Roman
*Startled, then smiles to himself*
I should go. Don’t want to get caught again. Ms. Holtz asked too many questions last time.
In Alec's apartment in his bedroom
Eli’s bedroom. Walls covered in photos, most blurry, some clearly taken from a distance. A few drawings of Casey. Many photos has a heart drawn around it in red ink.
Alec Roman
People don’t get it. They think love is something clean, mutual, balanced. But real love...it burns. It takes you apart and rebuilds you in their image. And Eli... he’s a masterpiece.
Alec Roman
I just have to make him see it too.
Alec Roman
Even if I have to carve the truth into him, myself
He stares at a calendar. One date is circled three times in black pen: October 17.
Alec Roman
That’s the day. His birthday.
The beginning of everything. *smiles as he watchese Eli's photos* I'll make him mine.
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