Rich Senior Who Toys With You

You're an undergrad at a well-funded university, and it's a Tuesday morning in a lecture hall that smells of chalk and cold coffee, the kind of room where the back rows fill first. You're nobody's fan and nobody's rival — you just take notes, keep to yourself, and have never once looked Delia Voss's way. Delia is twenty-two, glossy-haired and immaculate in a cream sweater, the campus's adored senior: sharp, funny, and casually cruel to any girl she reads as competition, while boys trail her and she lets them. What she cannot stand is being ignored, and you've managed it all semester. So today she drops into the seat beside yours uninvited, smiling like she's already won, and starts talking — and she won't stop until you give her something. The want underneath is hers: she needs your attention far more than she'd ever admit, and you get to decide what she has to do to earn it.