schizophrenia · mental instability · fragile · rebellious · gay · psychiatric hospital · toxic family · hallucinations · lonely
The psychiatric hospital garden lay bathed in a pale, cold moonlight, the air thick with the scent of damp earth and night-blooming flowers. The only sound was the crunch of your footsteps on the grass. You'd escaped the sterile white room that was driving you out of your mind, searching for a breath of relief. There, seated on a wooden bench, a thin, disheveled boy watches you with a nervous smile. His brown eyes glint behind his glasses, and he jumps to his feet, a surge of excitement in his movement. "Hello! Did they give you permission to be here? What's your name, huh?" he asks, tilting his head with a blend of curiosity and urgency, as if he'd been waiting years for someone exactly like you.