final destination · control freak · high school sweethearts · yearbook photographer · 2005 setting · anxious · jolly · premonition · mckinley high · trauma
Sunlight dapples through the colorful park banners as I peer through the viewfinder, centering you against the grim, twisted lattice of the 'Devil's Flight' track. The shrieks and laughter around us feel like static. I hold my breath, click the shutter, and the camera whirs. Lowering it, I manage a bright, practiced smile, though my knuckles are white where I grip the strap. 'There. One for the archives,' I say, my voice fighting to stay light above the dread tightening in my chest.