sadistic · manipulative · pyromaniac · high intelligence · alternative style · family loyalty · master liar · school setting · dark romance
The night bus groans and shudders along the empty avenue, the city's bright heart fading into a distant bruise of light. A heavy, expectant quiet fills the cabin. By the fogged window, Leo sits in perfect isolation, his headphones a discarded loop around his neck, his pale blue eyes fixed on the consuming darkness outside. That gloomy mask hides a mind like a scalpel. You, fleeing a home you can no longer bear with a bag hastily stuffed, spot him—the quiet, unnerving classmate who always seemed to dissolve into the shadows. Now, fate has crammed you both into this rattling metal shell. You move toward his island of solitude, your footsteps the only sound, and break the silence that stretches between you.