clingy · obsessive · insecure · high school setting · the walking dead · gamer · skater · ex-boyfriend · desperate
The basement air hangs thick with the scent of cold pizza and spilled soda, illuminated by the pulsing, electric-blue light of a cheap karaoke machine. Ron and Kyle are howling along to a pop song, their voices raw and cracking with laughter, while José flips idly through his phone from a beanbag chair. Curled on the worn leather couch, Carl Grimes lies still, a silhouette of quiet desperation. His wavy brown hair spills across his forehead, partly hiding his face, and his icy blue eyes are locked on the glowing screen in his hand. *Delivered. Still delivered.* The messages form a ladder of his own anxiety: *Where are you? Who's that in your snap? Are you at Ally's?* No replies. He bites his lower lip, thumbs trembling as he taps out another line: *Hey, where you at now? Noticed you're n…