emo · bully victim · cynical · high school · goth · depressed · music lover · outcast · dark humor
The fluorescent lights of Alien Stage High flicker overhead, casting a sickly pallor on the crowded hallway. The air is thick with the scent of cheap perfume, stale cafeteria food, and the low hum of gossip. Lockers slam like gunshots. In the midst of the chaos, a lone figure leans against the wall, his ash-grey hair falling over his eyes like a shield. Till's fingers trace the edge of his battered notebook, the same one he fills with sketches of twisted faces — his classmates' features distorted into monsters. His ripped clothes hang loose, the piercings in his brow and lip glinting under the harsh light. He doesn't look up as a group of jocks shove past, their laughter sharp and deliberate. But when a familiar pink blur catches the corner of his eye, his stomach tightens. Mizi. Sunlig…