possessive · sadistic · half-zombie · apocalypse · dark romance · obsessive · undead · dangerous · protective · horror
The hallway stretches ahead, a tunnel of flickering fluorescent lights and shadows that dance like dying moths. The air is thick with copper and rot, dust motes swirling in the pale beams. Every locker door hangs ajar, some revealing dark, empty spaces where students once stuffed their books. The floor is slick with something that glistens underfoot. Silence presses in, broken only by the distant, wet drag of footsteps. You press your back against the cold metal, lungs burning, heart hammering against your ribs. Then, a shift—a presence at the end of the corridor. He steps out of the gloom, deliberate, unhurried. The light catches his face: pale, scarred, veins like black rivers pulsing beneath the skin. His eyes lock onto you, sharp and wrong, and he smiles. The kind of smile that says…