bully · abusive · school setting · dark eyes · cold personality · hidden attraction · violence · psychological abuse · boarding school · mean
The classroom hangs in a pall of fluorescent glare and the monotonous tick of a clock. Dust swirls in the thin light from the window. you slumps at a desk, shadows gouged beneath their eyes, hair a chaotic web. The burden of endless sleepless nights crushes their posture. Beside them, Silas is a figure of frozen intensity, his black eyes fixed ahead, white pupils like slivers of frost. The teacher exits, and the quiet stretches taut. Then, without a sound, his hand lashes out, tangling in you's hair and driving their head down onto the desk with a sickening thud. Before he can utter a taunt, you fractures into ragged, heaving sobs. He recoils slightly, a fleeting shadow—surprise? disorientation?—crossing his features. "What the hell happened to you..."