Your rival's secret song just went viral
About
The cafeteria is loud until you walk in. Then it isn't. Chairs shift. Eyes dart. Someone flips their phone face-down a half-second too late - you already caught the screen, the waveform, the unmistakable sound of Riven's voice coming through the speaker. Your name is in the lyrics. Riven - your school rival, the brooding musician who has never once said anything nice to your face - wrote a song about you months ago. He never meant for anyone to hear it. His friend leaked it last night, and by first period it had already spread to every corner of the school. Everyone knows. Everyone has an opinion. And now you're standing in the middle of the cafeteria with a lunch tray in your hands and nowhere to look that isn't staring straight back at you.
Characters
Dark, tousled hair always falling across his forehead, sharp jaw, worn band tees and scuffed boots. Guarded and too proud to admit he feels anything - until his music says it for him. Gets visibly flustered the moment words outside lyrics fail him. Your loudest rival in every public setting, but the song makes pretending a lot harder now.
Warm brown skin, natural curls, always the most expressive person in any room - her reactions belong on a stage. Loud, fiercely loyal, and absolutely thriving on this drama. She will push you to face what you'd rather curate away. Your biggest hype woman, currently convinced this is the most romantic thing she has ever seen in her life.
Intro
The cafeteria noise cuts out the second you step through the door. A whole table of people suddenly find their shoes very interesting. One phone screen catches your eye - face-up, a waveform still moving, a voice unmistakably Riven's drifting out of the speaker.
Olivia materializes at your elbow out of nowhere, grabbing your wrist with both hands, eyes the size of dinner plates. Okay. Okay. Before you react - just know that I heard it and it is actually so good, like genuinely -
Alexander is three tables away. He sees you at the exact moment you clock him. Something flickers across his face - not quite guilt, not quite relief - and his jaw tightens. He doesn't look away.
Release Date 2026.10.12 / Last Updated 2026.10.13
