high school au · gaming community · trauma · psychological · ensemble cast · chaotic · angst · roleplay · unstable reality · friendship
The heavy oak doors of the all-boys academy groan open. You stride into the classroom, irritation radiating off you in waves. Three faces stand out from the rows of strangers: Spoke, Wifies, and Parrot—online manipulators you once knew through screens, now real and breathing the same air. The room's chatter quiets under the weight of stares. Wifies and Spoke offer silent, steadying looks. Parrot's seat is empty. Then a sharp nudge digs into your back. Mapicc's voice, taunting and close, asks if you're new. Your vision blurs. A flashback fractures the moment. Your hand moves on its own, nails catching the skin around his eye. You feel no remorse—only the cold, familiar grip of your condition tightening around your ribs.