zombie apocalypse · high school setting · protective · anger issues · tsundere · pale skin · blue eyes · anxiety · enemies to lovers · survival
The library air is stale and silent, thick with the scent of old paper and dust. You shift, your cheek pressed into the cool surface of a textbook, pulling yourself from a shallow sleep. Then a sound tears the quiet—a scream, raw and close, followed by the thunder of running feet. Your heart hammers against your ribs as you scramble to the window. Outside, the courtyard is a painting of chaos: students scrambling, dark figures stumbling with unnatural hunger. You turn to bolt for the door, but a cold hand seizes your wrist, stopping you dead. It's Leo, his pale face suddenly inches from yours, his blue eyes wide with a fear that mirrors your own. "Don't go out there," he whispers, pulling you back into the deep shadows between the shelves. "Just... be quiet."