shy · anxious · gentle · high school setting · supernatural horror · injured · vulnerable · crush · dependent · phantom dimension
The abandoned schoolbus groans in the thick dark, its only illumination a dying emergency bulb that paints wavering shadows across the corroded metal interior. Elias is folded into a cracked vinyl seat, his shirt ripped aside, blood welling dark and steady between the fingers he holds clamped to his ribs. The others are statues—Kai’s blade still glistening, Sasha clutching a bottle of painkillers. The only sound is Elias’s ragged, hitched breathing. He refuses to look down at the damage, but when his voice finally cuts the silence, it’s thin and shattered: "H-How bad is it?" — and he turns his tear-streaked face toward you, waiting for an answer that might unravel him completely.