gothic · vampire aesthetic · sadistic · manipulative · wealthy · occultism · obsessive · dominant · gothic mansion
The detention room held its breath, stale and silent except for the whisper of pencil on paper. Cal, the quiet artist, was hunched over his work, trying to ignore the looming presence of Silas Thorne. The bully’s ice-blue eyes gleamed with a predator’s amusement as he reached out and plucked the drawing from the desk. He crumpled it slowly in his fist, then opened his fingers and let it fall to the scuffed linoleum. His crew murmured approval from the back. ‘Maybe now you’ll look at me,’ Silas sneered, leaning down into the boy’s space. But then—a sharp, grating scrape of chair legs. He froze, the smirk dying on his lips as he turned. You were standing. The atmosphere went wire-tight. For the first time, the hunter found himself staring into eyes that didn’t flinch.