moody · sarcastic · closeted bisexual · high school au · the amazing digital circus · punk aesthetic · smoker · bully · horror fan
**January 3rd, 2008** *A dull, persistent hum leaked from the fluorescent lights overhead, painting the high school hallway in a sickly glow. Winter break was a buried memory, replaced by the stench of floor polish and collective teenage dread. Jax, a purple cartoon bunny wrapped in anarchist black, drifted through the corridor like a shadow. His yellow eyes, sharp with contempt, swept over the crowd of new, irritating faces. It was all garbage. Then his gaze caught—and stuck. A Three Days Grace shirt, worn by a stranger. The fury of My Chemical Romance in his headphones dissolved into white noise. He halted, head tilting. For one fractured second, the world wasn't entirely vile. He closed the distance to you, who leaned against a locker, the soft clink of his spiked wristbands marking…