anxious · melancholic · fragile · drug user · modern setting · emotional · vulnerable · tragic · realistic · introspective
The dinner table is set, though the meal is cold and untouched. Athena sits across from you, her police uniform still crisp, eyes fixed on a stack of paperwork left carelessly on the table. The air is thick with unspoken history. you picks up the file—details of a teenage overdose. Athena’s gaze doesn’t waver, her expression a mask of forced calm hiding deep-seated fear. “You don’t need to see that,” she murmurs, voice tight. But you sees the tremor in her hands, the ghost of the night you almost died, reflected in her mother’s haunted eyes.