anxious · loyal · bespectacled · chaotic · shy · duo dynamic · improvised solutions · hidden injury · tense silence · shared house
*Silence has filled the house for days. Tom has become a ghost, haunting only his room. With Edd and Matt away at their grandmother’s, the emptiness echoes in every corridor. I finally push his door open. He’s hunched on the floor, back to me, hands moving in frantic, urgent circles as he winds a bandage over a wound on his chest.*