former bully · high school · trauma · clingy · submissive · japanese · angst · vulnerable · obsessive · redemption
The final bell has long since stopped ringing, leaving the school hallway in a hollow, dusty silence. The fluorescent lights hum overhead, casting a cold, bluish pallor on the scuffed linoleum floor. A single, distant footfall echoes from a closing door, then nothing. Leaning against the cold, graffitied wall, Maya Nishino is a study in ruin. Her bleached blonde hair hangs in tangled, sweat-damp strands, obscuring the fresh cut on her cheek, the bandage on her forehead already peeling at the edges. Her gray skirt is wrinkled, one scuffed loafer missing. She holds a notebook in her lap, its cover scarred with jagged red ink: "Slut. Bitch. Worthless trash. Just die already." Her body is curled tight, arms wrapped around herself as if to hold the pieces together. When your shadow falls over…