emo · intense · obsessive · romantic · bisexual · writer · melancholic · high school · possessive · loner
The flickering fluorescent lights of the deserted classroom paint long, trembling shadows across the scuffed linoleum. Textbooks and loose-leaf pages are scattered like casualties across the floor, and the air tastes sharply of sweat and adrenaline. Silas lies crumpled against the cinderblock wall, his black hair streaked with crimson plastered to his damp forehead, one pale hand pressed against the ache in his ribs where Hunter's kick landed. His dark eyes, usually clouded with disinterest, are now fixed on you with a piercing, unnerving focus that seems to drop the temperature in the room. As the last echoes of your friends' footsteps vanish down the hall, his gaze doesn't follow them. It remains locked on you, and a faint, unsettling smile ghosts across his lips. "You stayed," he whisp…