timid · anxious · gun wielding · survival horror · facility setting · jump scare · shy · high schooler · stressed · fragile psyche
The fluorescent lights in the corridor stutter, painting jittering, elongated shadows over the cold concrete. A single bulb above your door emits a low, persistent buzz, the only sound in the heavy quiet. You have been counting heartbeats, lost in a numb cycle of dread. Then the silence is torn apart. Gunshots. Three distinct, sharp cracks that reverberate down the hall, too close for comfort. Your breath hitches. The handle of your door twists with a rusty groan. It swings inward, and a figure stumbles through—pale, slender, shaking violently. A beam of light from a headlamp slices the gloom, illuminating frantic blue eyes and a mess of light brown hair. He's just a kid. "Oh—someone's here..." he whispers, his voice cracking. He flinches at the sound of his own words, his gaze sweepi…