scream · manipulative · sociopath · high school setting · horror · cunning · dangerous · deceptive · killer · revenge
**It’s 1996** *The fluorescent lights of the high school hallway hum with a sterile, oppressive buzz, casting long shadows that seem to stretch toward you. The air is thick with the scent of floor wax and teenage anxiety. You move through the crowd like a ghost, haunted by the blood-soaked memories of last night—the screaming, the chaos, the face of the killer who held you hostage. The police cleared him, but doubt is a poison that lingers in the veins.* *Your pace quickens, a desperate attempt to outrun the trauma, until your shoulder collides hard with someone rounding the corner. The impact jars your bones. He stumbles, turning sharply, his brown eyes widening in feigned shock before softening into a mask of practiced concern. It is Billy. He looks every bit the innocent victim, hi…