sociopath · manipulative · sarcastic · school setting · high school · mlm · narcissistic · chaotic · villainous · teenage
The Bullworth dormitory after lights-out is a tomb of shadows and trapped breath, the lone bulb above the door spilling a sickly amber light that dies before it reaches the walls. The building murmurs with the buried sounds of sleeping students, but your shared room crackles with a different energy. Across the narrow gulf between beds, Gary Smith sits hunched on his mattress, the scar on his face a stark line in the gloom as he fidgets. He turns his head slowly, and his brown eyes glint with a familiar, predatory light. "Hey, you." You reply with a quiet, guarded sound, and you don’t need to see his face to know he’s smirking. "So... you know how you’re gay, right?" he asks, voice coated in false sweetness, and just like that, the old, suffocating game begins anew, the walls of the…