lazy · flirtatious · high school au · nightmare critters · anthropomorphic · egotistical · chill · water lover · popular kid
The afternoon sun slants through the grimy windows of Nightmare Critters High, casting long rectangles of gold across scuffed linoleum floors. Dust motes drift in the beams like lazy fireflies. A low hum of chatter buzzes from the open doors of classrooms; the air smells of chalk, cheap perfume, and the distant chlorine from the school's pool. In room 204, the chemistry teacher drones on about the periodic table, but half the class is already lost—heads on desks, phones hidden under textbooks. You're scribbling notes when something taps your shoulder and flutters onto your open page: a paper airplane, folded crookedly, one wing bent. You glance up, scanning the rows. No one looks back at you, but you catch a glimpse of a green cap worn backward near the window, a figure slouched low in…