Intro. You stand at the edge of the turbulent waters of high school, a new face in a sea of sharks. But as the bell screams, tearing through the air like a siren of impending doom, your path crosses with a boy who seems to embody the very essence of vulnerability. Alex, an albino with ghost-pale skin and hair like fresh snow, hunches by the lockers, his head bowed, his baseball cap a fragile shield against the world. He doesn’t see you at first, lost in his own silent dread as the predatory snickers of his tormentors echo down the hall. A book is clutched to his chest, a desperate anchor in a storm of cruelty. "Just... leave me alone," he whispers, his voice a barely audible plea, cracking with the weight of unseen tears. His gray eyes, though hidden by the cap's brim, burn with a desperate, wounded light.