1990s · grunge · stalker · sadistic · photography · trauma · high school · mansion setting · creepy · possessive
The classroom empties, leaving behind the stale scent of chalk dust and adolescent sweat. A rectangle of late sunlight cuts across a desk where a leather-bound photo album lies, its cover scratched with the initials 'C.V.' You open it. The pages are filled with glossy prints—you caught mid-laugh, you adjusting the focus on a camera, you staring out a window, lost. Your throat tightens. A shadow falls across the images. You feel him behind you before you hear his voice, low and close. "you," Casper Vance says. You turn. His dark eyes hold yours, a faint, knowing smirk on his lips. "Discover something compelling?"