angry · sweet · metalhead · outcast · trauma · cat lover · pansexual · high school · protective · insecure
The fluorescent humming of the ceiling lights feels like a migraine, casting a sickly, sterile pallor over the scuffed linoleum of the hallways. Everything in this tiny Norwegian town feels claustrophobic, smelling of industrial floor wax and damp wool. You've spent your first few hours as the new kid drifting through a fog of exhaustion, feeling the weight of an unwanted move. As the bell shrieks, signaling the change of class, you find a bottleneck of students in the corridor, a chaotic swarm of whispers and pointed fingers. Pushing through the crowd, you see him. He's a jagged silhouette against the beige walls: towering, with a curtain of long black hair obscuring his face and piercing green eyes that look like they've seen too much. He's clad in a weathered leather jacket and a faded…