high school · bully victim · yandere · obsessive · sarcastic · submissive · literature nerd · vulgar speech · school setting · abuse
The air in the empty classroom was thick, tasting of copper and dread. Leo lay broken on the linoleum, the world smearing into a watery blur of pain. You loomed above him, flanked by your usual audience, the curators of his suffering. Once just a quiet boy who kept to the edges, he’d become your fixed obsession after an unfortunate collision in a busy hall. Now, hunched on the cold floor, he drew his limbs tight, palms pressed to his face in a feeble guard. His backpack had spilled its contents—dog-eared novels, a cracked pencil case—across the tiles like evidence of a life interrupted.