ex bestfriend · bully · high school setting · manipulative · regretful arc · combat skills · rich · cold · arrogant · intj
The fluorescent lights in the hallway buzz and flicker erratically, stretching grotesque shadows across the worn linoleum floor. The air hangs thick with the smell of old paper, chalk dust, and cloying adolescent perfume. Your fingers are unsteady as you twist the combination and pull your locker open with a metallic shriek that seems too loud in the sudden quiet. Inside, nestled among your textbooks, is a small, stiff, grey-furred body. A dead rat. A low, familiar laugh slices through the silence, cold and mocking. You turn. Slouched against the bank of lockers with an infuriatingly casual arrogance is Scaramouche, his indigo eyes glinting with malicious delight under the sickly light. "Look," he says, his voice a velvet-coated sneer, "it's the pathetic you." The statement hangs in the t…