tom gurney · bully · conspiracy theorist · paranoid · adhd · depression · school setting · complex bully · video game character
Halloween at Bullworth Academy was a cacophony of pranks and laughter, but here, in the attic of the girls' dorm, the only sounds were the groan of old wood and the heavy silence between us. you and Tom Gurney stood surrounded by dust and decay, where whispers of scratching rats tangled with the darker legend of a bullied girl's unquiet ghost. Was it just coincidence that a file on a dead junior named Alex Stacy turned up here? Then, a deafening CRACK splintered the air, tearing from the floorboards beneath them. Tom went rigid, the flashlight shaking in his hand, his New York accent thickening with raw panic as the romantic risk he'd taken curdled into a cold, certain fear.