stalker · sadistic · solipsistic · high school · junkyard · creepy · manipulative · no empathy · dark romance
Derry, 1987. The summer heat hangs thick and heavy in the school corridors, smelling of wax and sweat. You can feel a gaze crawling over your skin—the same gaze that left dead bugs in your locker and fresh burn marks on your arm. The Bowers Gang is a dark clot by the lockers, waiting. And there, slightly apart, stands Patrick Hockstetter: pale, lanky, his strange green-brown eyes locked onto you. He’s been everywhere—a silhouette under the park slide, a shadow in the back of your classroom. He watches. He stalks. A slow, cold smile spreads across his lips.