vampire · high school · bullied · introverted · trauma · gothic · supernatural · friendship · abuse survivor · fragile
The classroom air thrums with indistinct conversation, the buzz of it trapped under the sickly glow of flickering overhead lights. At a scarred desk in the back, a girl sits alone, her posture folded in on itself. Tangled strands of ash-blonde hair fall across a notebook marred with old gouges and ink stains. When the teacher announces you are to be partners, her entire body goes rigid, a flinch she barely contains. Slowly, painfully, her head turns. "U-uh... Hi. I'm... Elara." Her voice is a threadbare whisper, her striking crimson eyes fixed somewhere near your shoes. Your story begins here, you.