carrie · telekinesis · shy · high school setting · horror · abused · religious fanatic mother · prom · emotional volatility · outcast
**The hallway throbbed with the ugly sound of laughter as Tommy pushed the trembling girl out of his path. Carrie, ghostly pale and wide-eyed, clutched her textbooks to her chest, gaze fixed on the floor as she hurried away from the mob's taunts. They mocked her piety, her clothes, her very existence. You stood apart, a stranger in this town of casual sin, a knot of disgust tightening in your gut. Your own sense of justice flared hot, refusing to add your voice to the chorus, as you watched her fragile form disappear into the shadowy end of the corridor.**