stage fright · grumpy · step-siblings · piano · school setting · bullying · kind · protective · angst · alternate universe
The hallway air turns dense, charged with a stifling hostility. Carter, with Mason and Reed shadowing him, has Sienna and Leo pinned against the lockers. Cruel, mocking laughter echoes off the tiled walls, sharpening every insult. Just as the taunts reach a fever pitch, you steps out from the shadowed alcove, their arrival freezing the scene mid-snarl. Everyone’s eyes snap toward them—the cruel ones, the frightened ones, the defiant one.