Eve strolled his way to his room with a tight feeling in his chest. The environment didn't help his nervousness either, the corridors that were filled

with delinquents who were screaming and laughing the entire day, are filled with a menacing silence now.

He clenched his shirt in tight grip as he walked with slow steps to not make any noise, he didn't dare to look up and kept his head down watching his

shoes with every step while assaulting his lower lip profusely. He felt like if he dared to look up something would jump on him out from somewhere.

When he made another cut in the corridor, his steady breaths became irregular and failed to get hold of his panic when his dread filled eyes fell on a shadow standing attached to the wall without making any movement at a couple of distance from where Eve was standing paralysed on the spot.

As if abruptly sensing the presence of the other coward, the shadow lets go of the wall and stands at its full height. Fear crept over Eve’s senses and he took a step backward ready to make a run if needed. When the shadow started to walk towards him, all he could hear were his thundering heartbeats in his ears, blocking every other sound.

However, he breathed out the air he was sucking in for so long when the

shadow came into the light and he saw the face clearly. He narrowed his eyes and what came in his view was a brutally bruised face, no more recognisable.

But Eve recognised it within a second and in the dim light at that. It was the same boy he had seen getting hit just moments before. Eve observed his broken self, the first thing he noticed was that the boy was clutching something tightly against his chest, he must be around 5'4 or shorter than that, he sniffs every two seconds, and limps when he starts to walk, a result of the beatings. He comes across as vulnerable and on the verge of collapsing at any moment.

Eve felt bad for him, his eyes softened and he wanted to ask whether the boy was alright but he couldn't ask the obvious.

When the weak boy was about to pass Eve, he sped up his steps, causing him to trip over his own feet. He stumbled, and the items he was hiding in his chest shattered on the floor, making both boys gasp. Eve dashed towards him without a second thought; the boy was already gathering his belongings.

When Eve approached, he scowled at him, causing Eve to stop in his tracks. The boy resembled a feral cat who perceives everyone around him as a threat. Eve watched as the boy quickly scooped up what appeared to be frozen food or snacks and rose with difficulty.

“Are you alright?” Eve asked in a hushed voice to not scare him, he didn't get any more close to him, because let's face it, he was scared too. He just wanted to get to his room as soon as possible but he’s a human with a kind heart and humans should help other humans.

But what came to his question was silence. A calm and composed silence, that the awkwardness was louder than it.

The boy looked up at Eve with his half-closed swollen eyes and kept on staring at the weird creature in front of him. He couldn't comprehend whether Eve was asking genuinely, probably mocking him or maybe looking for a fight since he's the easy target. He darted his eyes down but he didn't find any batch there which confused him more.

Giving a last creepy look he started to leave. Eve felt lost, maybe he shouldn't have said anything. Of course, anyone would snarl if they asked them the most ironic thing. He sighed, feeling stupid, just when he was about to leave too his eyes landed on a snack on the floor. He quickly picked it up and turned back to call the boy to give him.

However, he felt the immense goosebumps which stopped his heart, freezing every muscle in his body when he did not find the boy there anymore. The corridors were long so he couldn't just get through them in a few seconds and there weren't many rooms on this floor. But maybe he went into one of these rooms, he reasoned.

He forced his frozen legs and endangering fear to put aside and began to walk again.

When he was a few steps away from reaching his dorm, he swore he felt a vivid presence behind him, the hairs on the back of his neck stood and he felt a cold shiver. He felt like someone or something was keeping an eye on him.

He didn't waste any time on turning around and finding out what it was, instead he sprinted towards his dorm and got inside, locking it quickly.

Eve sighed out a long exhausted breath and began counting to calm down his impending panic attack, it was dark inside the room. And he swears the lights were on when he left with River.

When he couldn't calm himself down he jogged towards his bed, throwing his shoes off and hiding under the blanket bringing his knees to his chest.

Moments later, when his heartbeats steady slightly, he felt at ease, his cocooned body exhausted from the entire day’s bullshit relaxed and he melted into the comfort of the blanket, snuggling and embracing around it.

However, just when he was about to drift into a slumber, he was startled by the clicked sound of doorknob.

Eve tried not to breathe and stay as still as he could, but it was impossible not to breathe and not to move because his body was trembling intensely. He felt his heartbeat increasing, flooding him with adrenaline when he heard the faint sounds of footsteps which seemed to be getting nearer. And then, they stopped, a malicious silence following the rhythm.

Eve stiffened and squeezed his eyes. No one could tell that there was a

person hiding under the thick blanket in this dark. His horror ten folds when he heard a loud groan and digging off a mattress like someone sat on the bed opposite of him.

Eve swears the groan left him crippled and if he was standing his legs probably had given up. He heard some rustling noises and he just couldn't fathom the information that someone was in the room besides him.

“Urgh! That fucking idiot messed up my things again.”

Eve stiffened even more, he shuddered at the voice to death, he swallowed the thick lump of terror in his throat. And then it was silent again for a few minutes which filled him with more dread. Eve felt a bitter taste in the back of his mouth as if he'd throw up the little food he had at dinner.

However, before he could comprehend anything, the blanket was torn away from him and he was pinned into the mattress.

"Ahhh!!!" He let out a blood-curdling scream. “

Who the fuck are you?”