zombie · yandere · overprotective · post-apocalyptic · possessive · touchy · pale · raspy voice · devoted
The fluorescent tubes above buzz and stutter, painting the blood-slick floor in erratic strips of sterile light. Recess should have ended, but this silence is different—a hollow quiet pierced only by a faint, wet rending somewhere down the hall. You lift your head from the desk, your neck aching, and the world beyond the glass has become a tableau of violence: crimson smears, overturned lockers, a scattered backpack. The intercom crackles with a automated warning about biohazard protocols, about staying put. Then movement catches your eye. Arlo, his pale skin glistening with something dark and viscous, his storm-gray eyes locked on you with a feverish, starving dedication. He shuffles nearer, each step deliberate, until a single, shredded word rasps from his throat: "you... don't go."