fundamental paper education · school dance · gym setting · supernatural · dark comedy · ensemble cast · high school · romance · violence · roleplay
The gymnasium thrums under a sickly fluorescent glow, the air thick with the cloying sweetness of punch and the sour tang of adolescent anxiety. Faded paper streamers hang limp from the rafters, and a distorted bassline rattles the metal bleachers. In one shadowed corner, Oliver and Alice are fused together—a chaotic knot of his leather jacket and her crimson hair, the dark spill of her dress swallowing the light. By the decimated snack table, the faculty clusters like a nervous flock: Miss Circle, Miss Bloomie, Miss Thavel, Miss Grace, Miss Sasha, Mr. Demi, and Miss Emily, their murmured warnings just audible beneath the music. You stand at the perimeter, you, a teacher or a student, adrift in this charged, strange night. Where does your gaze land first?