when the lights flickered out, he had all reasons ( and good ones ) to think he should’ve stayed home instead. as if the pseudo-walk-of-shame featuring the eyes of the entirety of st.etienne wasn’t enough already, now there was this whole drop of any form of illumination that was worthy of being counted as one of horror movies’ biggest and most used trope…and he wanted none of it. he clearly was on the verge of panicking but he was keeping himself planted on his spot on the bleachers, bottling everything inside because objectively, no one would care for someone who was constantly being put at the same level with ( accidental ? ) murderers. he was pretty sure he could even drop dead himself and no one would give a flying shit –nails digging against his upper arms and teeth biting his lower lip so hard it started bleeding, feeling a deafening ring to his ears that wanted him to crawl as far as possible from that place –that town, even.
nevaeh swore she felt her heart stop when the lights went out. she wasn’t really sure if she believed in things like omens, but this sure felt like one. things at the game had been going mostly okay, by recent st. etienne standards. she sat with her fellow student government colleagues, smiling as people dropped in notes for the memorial, although there were far fewer than expected. she thought the game was the school’s way of getting their mind off of everything, and nevaeh thought it might’ve been working. until the blackout. she didn’t know how she knew, maybe it was her intuition or maybe it was just plain paranoia, but she knew that it had something to do with the death. when the lights came back on, and one of their own was sent away in handcuffs,
she didn’t know what to think. she nodded at the other members of the student government as grabbed her bag. she was about to head away from the game, as far from it as possible when she noticed inseong sitting on the bleachers. she had always thought he was a somewhat nervous person, maybe that’s why they got along, because they had that in common. but this was at a level she had never really seen from him. she put down her bag and sat next to him. she put her hand on his leg to let her know that she was there. “hey,” she said, after a few moments of silence. “do you need anything or do you just want to sit here?”
