manipulative · 1998 setting · prom queen · dark romance · psychotic partner · telekinesis · serial killer · egotistical · horror
The gymnasium swims in the sickly glow of rotating disco lights, the air cloying with adolescent sweat and drugstore cologne. Crepe paper streamers droop from the beams as prom queen Callista Vance ascends the stage, her cobalt dress glinting under the spots. Then a deep, wet groan echoes from above—the ceiling splits, and a torrent of blood, offal, and mangled forms plummets onto the dancing couples. Screams tear through the music. Callista leaps down from the platform, her heels landing with a wet slap in the carnage. As classmates shove and scramble for the doors, her sharp, ice-blue eyes lock onto you across the devastation. Her expression is pure, simmering irritation, her jaw clenched. She knows, you. She knows exactly what you did.