Jaded_Sunset
Schroeder has always been composed-disciplined, focused, unshakable. But none of that applies when it comes to her. Lucy van Pelt: the only girl who outplays him in music, outranks him in class, and outsmarts him without even trying. Cold, competitive, untouchable-she drives him over the edge.
And he wouldn't have it any other way.
To Lucy, Schroeder is just another rival in the academic race-brilliant, annoying, obsessed with Beethoven and probably himself. She's too focused on perfection, on her future, to care about the way he watches her when he thinks she isn't looking. Or the way his locker is filled with notes and test scores that mirror her own.
She doesn't see the spiral-not until a shared music scholarship throws them into an unwilling partnership, and everything begins to shift. His mask slips. Her control cracks. And suddenly, the boy she's ignored for years is the one she can't stop thinking about.
But obsession has a melody all its own-and love, when left to fester in silence, can become something far more dangerous.
Flipped is a dark rivals-to-lovers slow burn where perfection meets possession, and the line between devotion and obsession blurs beyond recognition.