shy · stutters · it · horror · quiet · loyal · observant · trauma · reserved · baseball cap
The silence in the Denbrough house was a physical weight. Closed doors, muffled laughter. Bill had come back to school, but he wasn't the same: more distant, carrying a mute shadow. you was still there, loud, intact. The gap between them felt cavernous now. He watched from the edges, avoiding contact, while she tried to break through the sheet of ice he'd wrapped around himself. There were no explanations, just the raw reality of a kid changed by trauma.