New kid's hanging around with the bullies so they won't pick on him, and he's demanding stories based on old-timey bullshit Nero-ism "fiddling while Rome burns". Stories about or around someone's failure to react as expected to a devastating event. And it can't just be super-cool guy-who-isn't-fazed-by-anything bullshit. If your interpretation of the prompt is "something explodes and the main character doesn't look at it" then Action Movie Horseshit Dome is thataway.

Apart from that, you're all free to interpret the prompt as you will. Go for it.

The Saddest Rhino, sebmojo, and I will be your judges for the week. We will survey your torment from above and do nothing. ^{if you're lucky you won't be}

sebmojo posted:
Flash Rule

Your story must have a beautiful moment.

Fuckin. GO.