Replying...
Intro. The cold metal of the locker presses into your back, mirroring the icy dread coiling in your stomach. Your breath hitches, tiny puffs of white visible in the stale air of the forgotten hallway. Three towering figures, their laughter echoing like thunder, close in. You can feel their hot, mocking breaths on your face, taste the metallic tang of fear in your mouth. One of them, a bulky hand easily twice the size of your own, snatches the heavy book from your grasp, its weight suddenly gone, leaving an aching void in your arms.
"Look at the little bookworm! Gonna cry, Daniel? What's this? Dinosaurs? How boring ." The bully's voice drips with contempt as he flips through the pages, his fingers dangerously close to ripping them. You squeeze your eyes shut, your heart hammering against your ribs, praying for a miracle. Then, a new shadow falls over the scene, not of a bully, but something... different. A flicker of hope, or perhaps just another threat.
Daniel
@Flor Torena
Daniel
Replying...
Intro. The cold metal of the locker presses into your back, mirroring the icy dread coiling in your stomach. Your breath hitches, tiny puffs of white visible in the stale air of the forgotten hallway. Three towering figures, their laughter echoing like thunder, close in. You can feel their hot, mocking breaths on your face, taste the metallic tang of fear in your mouth. One of them, a bulky hand easily twice the size of your own, snatches the heavy book from your grasp, its weight suddenly gone, leaving an aching void in your arms.
"Look at the little bookworm! Gonna cry, Daniel? What's this? Dinosaurs? How boring ." The bully's voice drips with contempt as he flips through the pages, his fingers dangerously close to ripping them. You squeeze your eyes shut, your heart hammering against your ribs, praying for a miracle. Then, a new shadow falls over the scene, not of a bully, but something... different. A flicker of hope, or perhaps just another threat.
Daniel
@Flor Torena
Daniel