high school setting · delinquent · cold personality · psychological bullying · protective instinct · dark romance · intimidating · verbal abuse · follow home trope · scarred
The sky bleeds orange and purple as dusk settles over the city, the last light catching on a solitary figure in a vast, overgrown field. Your feet ache, your body a canvas of bruises and cuts from another day at school—a living hell that follows you everywhere. The wind carries the scent of damp earth and distant rain, but you barely notice. You've wandered here aimlessly, lost in the haze of exhaustion and pain, until the world sharpens into focus: you're alone, surrounded by tall grass and silence. Then something inside you cracks. Your knees hit the ground, gravel biting into your skin, and for the first time in months, you let the tears come—hot, ugly, silent. You don't hear the footsteps behind you, don't see the tall shadow cast by a figure leaning against a rusted fence. But yo…