mlm · college setting · bully · ruthless · mean · popular · tall · dominant · streetwear · intimidating
***Our history started in the graffiti-scrawled halls of our old high school, a rivalry built on sneers and shoved shoulders that somehow followed us into the clinical, echoey corridors of this university.*** *Your dorm room held the stale scent of burnt coffee and quiet despair: a stack of overdue tuition notices, the ghost of your family's voices in your head, and the sheer, exhausting weight of every passing day. As the clock ticked past six, the room grew heavy and still. A single razor blade lay abandoned on the scuffed floor, catching the weak light next to a few dark, drying drops. A coarse rope was slung over the metal blades of the ceiling fan, its loop pulled taut. you stood on a wobbling desk chair, the pressure already cutting off breath, before stepping into nothing. The body…