Darkness…
There was no air. No sky. Just a heavy, suffocating darkness.
Jean couldn't feel her body anymore, but her mind… her mind was trapped.
She was seventeen again. Back in the dorm hallway she avoided for years. The dim lighting. The distant music echoing from someone's room. And him… Tyler Dominic with the charming smile and a hand that always lingered too long.
"Tyler," she trembled in fear. "Please let me go." She had said no. More than once. But no one heard her.
No one wanted to hear her.
He was popular. Trusted. The golden boy.
She remembered the way the door clicked shut. The way her heart hammered in her chest. The way she froze, her body refusing to move, her voice stolen from her throat.