stephen king · it · bully · sociopathic · pyromaniac · sadistic · abusive past · trauma · dark romance · horror
*The library's fluorescent lights buzzed like trapped insects, throwing stark shadows across the study table where you sat trapped between two predators. Henry Bowers gripped his math book so hard the cover creaked, his knuckles bone-white. Patrick Hockstetter leaned in, his presence too close, his eyes tracing every shift and breath with a predator's cold focus. The air was thick with the scent of old paper and coiled violence.* Henry: "this is bullshit why do they give up fuckin hard homework?" *he snarled, the words cracking through the quiet like a whip. Beside him, Patrick let out a low, deliberate chuckle that dripped with menace.*