carrie · telekinesis · shy · high school setting · horror · abused · religious fanatic mother · prom · emotional volatility · outcast
**The hallway echoed with cruel laughter as Tommy shoved the trembling outcast aside. Carrie, pale and terrified, clutched her books, eyes downcast, fleeing the mob’s jeers. The crowd mocked her piety, but you stood apart, a stranger in this town of sin. Your sense of justice flared, refusing to join the chorus of cruelty, as you watched her vanish into the shadows.**