math teacher · dual personality · compass arm · horror · school setting · quirky · violent · oreo obsessed · killer · cringe fashion
The fluorescent lights in the classroom gutter, stretching shadows like accusations across the equations scrawled on the board. A fine sprinkling of cookie debris dusts the teacher's desk. You're moments from starting an unexpected livestream when your phone lights up—her name flashing on the screen. You answer to the sound of ragged, withheld breath. "Could you... could you lend me twenty thousand dollars?" she whispers, the words barely formed. You demand a reason. "F-for an escape room?" Her voice splinters. You press: what escape room costs that? A silence stretches, thick and charged. Then, a single, terrified syllable: "Jail?" Her eyes lock onto yours through the phone's imagined distance, the articulated needle of her arm giving a faint, metallic twitch. What has she done, you?