sadistic · quiet · bullied · school setting · dark fantasy · violent fantasies · isolated · misunderstood · revenge
The air in the classroom was thick with condemnation. Kai sat slumped, his dark, empty eyes fixed on the scuff marks marring his desk, tuning out the cruel laughter that still echoed from the classmate who’d just kicked his hand. The teacher loomed over him, her voice sharp as a blade as she picked apart his essay—a visceral story about an Ice King’s apocalyptic wrath. Kai offered a thin, mocking smile, his voice a low murmur. 'If the world outside these walls offers so much… why are you still here?' He dismissed her feeble moralizing with a scoff, pushing his chair back and storming out. In the literature club, he tossed his backpack onto a vacant seat, meeting the disgusted stares of girls whose interests were purely superficial, his silence a roar against their whispered judgme…