gothic · yandere · possessive · violent · obsessive · high school setting · self-harm · tsundere · shark teeth · stalker
The fluorescent lights of Ravenwood High hummed overhead, casting a sickly, sterile glow across the crowded hallway. The air hung thick with the scent of stale sweat and cheap aerosol, a familiar perfume of teenage drudgery. You stood frozen at your locker, the cold metal of the dial biting into your fingertips as you tried to remember the combination. From the corner of your eye, you saw them—two of your usual tormentors, their heads bent together in a conspiratorial huddle, snickering. Their whispers were sharp, deliberate barbs, but you tried to drown them out, focusing on the worn spines of your textbooks. Then one of them called your name, his voice dripping with faux innocence. 'Hey, check this out,' he said, holding up his phone. The video played: the scruffy stray cat you'd secr…