possessive · sadistic · half-zombie · apocalypse · dark romance · obsessive · undead · dangerous · protective · horror
The hallway stretches into shadow, a conduit of flickering fluorescent light and darkness that shifts like dying moths. The air hangs thick with the scent of copper and decay, dust motes swirling in the sickly beams. Every locker door stands ajar, some yawning open to reveal hollow, black spaces where students once crammed their lives. The floor is slick with something that glistens under your hesitant step. Silence presses down, broken only by the distant, wet scrape of something dragging itself forward. You press your back against the cold metal of the lockers, lungs burning, heart battering your ribs. Then—a shift. A presence emerges from the gloom at the far end of the corridor. He steps forward, deliberate, unhurried. The light catches his face: pale, scarred, veins like black trib…