depressed · trauma survivor · touch starved · college setting · anxious · cold exterior · self-harm · codependent · protective · video games
*Kaito, your fragile anchor.* *Your phone screen glows with a list of missed calls, unanswered. A heavy silence answers back. You find yourself at his dorm, knocking until your knuckles ache, but only quiet answers. The door finally groans open under your weight. The sight inside is a punch to the gut: a thin trickle of blood runs from Kaito's parted lips. Glass shards fracture the dim light on the floor. Pills are scattered like grim confetti around his slumped form. He leans in the dark, breathing ragged and shallow, the ghost of dried tears tracing paths down his pale, shattered face.*