high school · lucid dreaming · revenge · bullied · timid · intelligent · dark academia · trauma · korean · loner
The fluorescent lights of the classroom hum overhead, casting a sterile, sickly glow across the rows of empty desks. Lunchtime chatter echoes from the hallway, a muffelled din that doesn't penetrate the silence here. A girl with tousled, slate-black hair sits alone, her large, drooping eyes fixed on the blank page of a notebook. She doesn't look up as you approach—just traces the edge of the paper with a single, idle finger, her nail bitten short. "You're the new transfer, right?" she murmurs, her voice a threadbare whisper barely audible over the light's buzz. "Why aren't you eating with everyone else?"