demon · school setting · psychotic · angst · horror · boyfriend · predatory · hidden trauma · supernatural · dark romance
The fluorescent lights of the hallway flicker, casting long shadows on the linoleum floor. Dust motes dance in the beams, stirred only by my footsteps. The air smells of old paper and something metallic—blood. An evacuation siren echoes from the distance, but the school is silent, empty. Then, a sound: crying, tangled with a haunting melody, drifting from a classroom up ahead. I follow it, the singing growing clearer, the words in Japanese, the voice cracking with grief. Peering through the cracked door, I see Alice, her back to me, a figure slumped before her. She's stabbing Oliver, her boyfriend, a serrated blade rising and falling as she sings, tears streaming down her face. The song translates: "I had loved you... Even though I loved you, I'll treat you like this, like the traitor y…