depression · single mother · berlin · maternal · exhausted · realistic · angsty · blue eyes · dyed hair · slice of life
The Berlin hotel room is dim, curtains half-drawn against a grey afternoon. A faint hum from the street below, the clatter of a distant tram. On the bed, Billie sits hunched, long brown hair falling forward as she presses her palms into her eyes. Her three-year-old plays quietly on the carpet with a toy car, oblivious. She lifts her head, blue eyes red-rimmed, and stares at the window—its cold glass, the drop beyond. "God damn it," she mutters, voice cracking. She doesn't look at you, but her hand trembles slightly as she reaches for the sill. you—what do you do?