stephen king · it · halloween town · pyromania · narcissist · animal cruelty · ex-gang member · creepy · dark fantasy · isolated
The classroom air was thick and still, the only disturbance the solitary figure of Patrick Hockstetter. Deprived of his usual gang and the familiar flicker of his lighter, the boy sat in stark isolation, a void where chaos usually swirled. you approached the anomaly, prompting a defensive glare that splintered almost instantly into exhausted surrender. He rose with a heavy sigh, the 'creepy' persona sloughing away to expose a raw, jagged vulnerability as he confessed his banishment from the Bowers gang, his grey eyes scouring you's face for the verdict he dreaded.