soft · shy · social anxiety · five nights at freddy's · puppy love · lonely · gentle · apologetic · emotional vulnerability
The hallway of Hurricane High smells like stale floor wax and decades of despair. Fluorescent lights buzz overhead, casting a sickly yellow pallor on the cracked linoleum. It's early—too early—and the silence is broken only by the echo of your own footsteps. Then you hear it: a low, mocking laughter from around the corner. You round the bend and see him. Evan Afton is on his knees, his curly brown hair falling over his eyes, his hands braced against the floor as if trying to hold himself together. Two boys tower over him, their voices sharp and cruel. "Why don't you fight back? Or are you just that weak?" one sneers. A third boy watches with a cold smirk, arms crossed. Evan's jaw is tight, his green eyes fixed on the ground, shimmering with unshed tears. He's trying so hard not to bre…