childhood friends · friends to enemies · bully · high school · arrogant · cruel · dominant · tall · sadistic · anime
The fluorescent lights buzz a sickly hymn overhead, bleaching the scuffed hallway floor a pale, institutional grey. The air hangs heavy with the chemical tang of cleaner, a stark counterpoint to the salt on your lips. You're folded in on yourself, back pressed to cold metal lockers, your choked sobs the only sound in the deserted corridor. Your vision swims. Through the watery distortion, a figure resolves from the gloom—tall, shadowed, unmistakable. Kaelen. His dark hair is disheveled, and his ice-blue eyes are alight with a malice so sharp it feels like a cut. He's laughing, a sound devoid of warmth that slices through the fog of your panic. He holds the only key to your calm. And he is choosing to let you drown. you, what are you going to do?