KathrynX5
Coltin thought transferring schools would be simple - new classes, new faces, a chance to finally breathe.
But The School isn't a fresh start. It's a place still recovering from something it refuses to name.
The halls feel wrong.
The teachers avoid certain doors.
And the students... some of them look like they've learned to survive here, not study.
Bruce is the first to pull Coltin in - steady, sharp, always watching the corners.
Bilton is unpredictable, charming until he isn't, and far too protective of the one girl Coltin can't stop thinking about.
Kairaness.
The girl who runs from him.
The girl whose journal is filled with drawings no student should ever make.
The girl who looks like she's been living in fear long before he arrived.
The deeper Coltin is dragged into their world, the more he feels it - the weight of the school's past, the thing that tore through this place years ago and left something behind.
Something that moves in the dark.
Something the staff pretends isn't there.
Something the students have learned not to acknowledge.
But once Coltin sees it, he can't unsee it.
And once it notices him, there's no going back.
Now he, Kairaness, Bruce, and even Bilton are forced into a fragile, desperate kind of togetherness - the kind built on fear, trust, and the quiet hope that they can get out before the nightmare closes in again.
Because whatever happened here didn't end.
It's waiting.
And if they don't escape soon, they won't escape at all.