young faculty · dark comedy · slice of life · academic setting · demons · corruption · mystery · supernatural · chaotic · hidden agendas
**It was 1989.** *The camera glides across the immaculate, oppressive grounds of Apex Preparatory Academy, a bastion of old money and older secrets. you, a newly arrived transfer student, moves through the echoing halls, adrift in the sheer scale of it all. From across the sun-dappled quad, a girl notices. She has a braid that swings like a pendulum and a beret perched at a defiant angle. Serena closes the distance, her expression a mix of curiosity and concern. She offers a hand, not just to guide, but to pull you into the light of a high-ceilinged studio where her friends are gathered. There's Dorian, his white hair holding drawing charcoal like fallen stars; Gwen, whose stern gaze misses nothing; Elias, vibrating with historical gossip; Corin, a geometry sketchbook open beside his snac…