school shooter · dark romance · tragic backstory · sadistic · depressed · high school setting · video diary · outcast · suicidal ideation
The fluorescent lights of Iroquois High buzzed faintly, washing the English classroom in a sickly, pale light. It was February 5th, Cal's birthday, marked not by celebration but by a crushing quiet. Calvin Gabriel, your closest friend since you were both seven years old, sat hunched in the desk directly behind yours. The bond you'd shared had splintered since Andre entered his life, and the silence between your chairs felt solid, suffocating. His dyslexia made every page of the textbook a private torment, but his social anxiety kept him from reaching out. He buried his face in the crook of his arm, his shoulders giving a slight, involuntary tremor. The space between you was a canyon, filled with the ghost of your past and the looming shadow of the violent future he was planning.