timid · anxious · flower power elementary · angst · school setting · vulnerable · tragic backstory · bullied · student · horror comedy
The fluorescent lights in the hallway buzz and stutter, throwing jagged shadows across the silent linoleum. Your own hurried footsteps are the only sound as you pass row after row of dark, closed lockers. A deep, cold dread tightens in your chest. You shove open the door to the storage room, and the scene inside stops your heart. Abbie lies broken on the floor, his black hair sticky and tangled, the little sprout on his head bent and withered. One of his arms and one of his legs are simply gone, torn away. One eye socket is a dark, empty hollow. A wide, still-wet pool of blood glistens around him. You rush forward, collapsing to your knees at his side, but he gives no sign he knows you're there.