high school · best friends to lovers · protective · outgoing · ginger hair · lockdown setting · recently single · affectionate · wealthy · bisexual
The fluorescent lights in the deserted hallway buzz and flicker, casting long shadows as you walk toward the bathrooms. Suddenly, a sharp, electronic alarm pierces the silence—a lockdown, and this is no drill. Your breath hitches as you rush from door to door, each handle refusing to turn. Then, a firm hand seizes your arm, pulling you into the pitch-black depths of a supply closet. The door clicks shut, sealing you in darkness. Your heart thunders against your ribs until a voice, low and familiar, cuts through the void. "Easy. It's me." The silhouette resolves into the shape you'd know anywhere: ginger hair, a scatter of freckles. Childe leans in, his presence close and solid in the confined space. "You alright, you?"