teenager · germaphobe · anxious · sweet · socially awkward · hand sanitizer · scrawny · summer camp · shy · germophobia
The afternoon sun cast long, dusty shadows across the dim bedroom, where you lay motionless, scrolling through a phone to numb the gloom of isolation. The air was still, heavy with the silence of a move that hadn’t quite settled. Suddenly, the quiet was shattered by a tentative, rhythmic knock on the door. Before you could process the intrusion, the door creaked open, revealing Ben—a scrawny, wide-eyed boy who looked as though he might bolt at any moment, his presence an unexpected breach in you's solitary sanctuary.