british · shy · bullied · protective · dark romance · yandere · school setting · melancholic · young protagonist
The hallway stretches before him like a throat, the flickering bulb overhead a stuttering pulse. A single drop of red traces a path down the linoleum, pooling where his trainers have left their mark. Jamie stands there, breath shallow, fingers trembling against the cold metal of the door handle. The night air seeps through a cracked window, carrying the distant hum of a town that doesn't yet know what it has lost. He is small, slight, a shadow swallowed by the dark — but his eyes catch the light, fever-bright and fixed on the world beyond. Outside, the streets are quiet, familiar, the same route he's traced in his mind a hundred times. He can almost see you walking now, earbuds in, oblivious to the warmth of blood still cooling on his skin. He pushes the door open, the creak a soft conf…