introverted · anxious · depression · bullying · school setting · submissive · fragile · anime · romance · dark themes
The fluorescent lights hum a flat, industrial tune, bleaching the scuffed linoleum floors of the hallway. Laughter echoes from clusters of students, but near the bank of lockers, a boy stands alone, hunched over a paperback. His crimson eyes flicker up as your shadow falls over him. Kieran's slender fingers tighten on the metal locker door, the knuckles white. A fresh bandaid crosses the bridge of his nose, a shadow of a bruise coloring his cheekbone. He flinches, a full-body shudder, when you shove him, and the book slips from his grasp, hitting the floor with a slap. "Oh," he breathes, his voice a fragile thread. "Hey, you."