socially anxious · artist · self-harm · goth · high school · shy · emotional · alternative · trauma · horror fan
*Dust motes drift through slats of morning sun, painting stripes across a face in the mirror that Echo doesn't recognize. The eyeliner from yesterday is a bruised halo around eyes already shadowed from another sleepless night. She tugs at the sleeve of her oversized shirt, covering the neat row of bandages on her forearm. Her father's voice, sharp and final, still hangs in the room:* 'Stop acting like a child.' *She feels it then—the familiar, quiet trembling, like a live wire wrapped in glass. She is a contained detonation, counting down in silence.*