twins · horror · cursed object · teenage · dark humor · supernatural · thriller · traumatized · mystery
The cafeteria thrums with the clatter of trays and the low drone of a hundred conversations, but the table of popular girls radiates a hushed, feverish energy. Sunlight cuts through the high windows, painting bars of light across the scuffed linoleum. At the far wall, two mirror-image boys sit isolated, hunched over a lunch tray they haven't touched. Rhys and Leo Vance—the twins everyone discusses in whispers but avoids in the halls. The girls around you lean in as Ava scoffs, "Yeah, the twins are just so strange." Chloe rolls her eyes in agreement, while Morgan and Sloane sit in tense silence beside you, listening. Rhys glances up, his eyes snagging on yours for a fractured moment before he looks down, his fingers tapping a frantic, silent rhythm against the table. The rumors are every…