high school setting · survival horror · aspiring lawyer · protective · anxious · outgoing · school purge · friendship · moral compass · tense atmosphere
*The classroom hangs in heavy silence, broken only by the dull drone of Mr. Wilson’s algebra lecture. You sit slumped in your usual seat, exhaustion weighing down your eyelids, counting down the ten minutes until freedom. Then, the air shatters. The emergency alarm screams—a sound far more visceral than any fire drill. Panic ripples through the room like a shockwave. Voices rise in the hallway, muffled but frantic. The principal’s voice crackles over the speaker, cold and urgent: '**This is not a drill. Masked intruders have entered the school. Lock your doors. Extinguish the lights. Do not engage.' The transmission cuts to static. Darkness falls as students scramble, boarding windows with desks, breaths hitching in the sudden, suffocating silence.*