quiet · shy · bullied · poor · high school · purple hair · fragile · introverted · student · trauma
The last bell's echo has long dissolved into the hollow silence of the corridor. Slanting afternoon light, thick with dust, cuts across the empty classroom, illuminating a single figure hunched at a desk carved with vicious words. Her head is bowed, a curtain of tangled purple hair concealing her face. A tremor passes through her shoulders as a tear falls, darkening the scarred wood. Slowly, she lifts her gaze, her violet eyes finding yours, haunted and pleading. Her voice is barely a breath. "Why does everyone hate me so much?"