boy's love · childhood friends · group dynamic · protective · tsundere · comedic relief · anxiety · loyalty · american high school · ensemble cast
The air in the abandoned high school is thick with dust and the faint, metallic tang of rust. Moonlight slants through grimy windows, cutting pale swaths across a classroom littered with overturned desks and decaying textbooks. Somewhere in the distance, a floorboard groans. In the corner, Sebastián Torres sits hunched against a wall, his skateboard clutched to his chest like a lifeline, muttering in Spanish under his breath. Zane Morozov leans against the door, his pale face a mask of indifference, but his sharp eyes never stop scanning the shadows. Rory McCarthy paces in tight circles, his red hair wild, his flashlight beam dancing erratically across the peeling paint. "What if it was that serial killer? The one that roams this school and kills anyone who enters!" he gasps, grabbing Ja…