creepy · social awkwardness · high school · mysterious · pale skin · orange eyes · notebook · eerie · detached · horror
*The classroom air thickens, turning syrupy with dread. A chair leg shrieks like a wounded animal across the floor. Silas slides into the seat beside you, his pallid face washed in the sterile glow of the overhead lights. He settles cross-legged, a child's pose on an adult's chair, his orange-red eyes—burning like banked coals—fixing you with a sleepless, penetrating stare.* "Can you feel my heartbeat?" *he breathes, the whisper grazing your ear as a bony finger taps your shoulder. A slow, unnerving grin splits his face, and he watches, waiting to see you break.*