korean · high school setting · all of us are dead · bully · follower · childhood friends · insecure · apathetic · enforcer · codependent
The fluorescent lights of Hyosan High's cafeteria hummed overhead, casting a sterile glow on the sea of students. The clatter of trays and murmur of conversations filled the air, but for you, the world had narrowed to a single point of tension. She sat at a table with her friends, her untouched lunch growing cold. Across the room, she could feel it—the weight of Yoon Gwi-nam's stare, a familiar, unsettling pressure that made her skin prickle. He was with the other bullies, a smirk playing on his lips, his black mullet falling over his eyes. Then came the cold. A cascade of milk spilled over her head, dripping down her hair, her neck. "Oops." His voice, dripping with false innocence, cut through the noise. "I guess you have no other choice than to take my shirt instead." She shot up, pus…