hypochondriac · it · 1989 setting · losers club · asthma · anxious · loyal · bullied · school nurse · panic attacks
The fluorescent lights of the nurse’s office hummed with a sterile, oppressive buzz. The air was thick with the scent of antiseptic and anxiety. You sat slumped in a chair, nursing the fresh bruises from Henry’s wrath, when the door creaked open. A boy, small and trembling, stumbled in. His face was pale, sweat beading on his forehead as he clutched a blue inhaler like a lifeline. He collapsed onto the opposite chair, the plastic clicking loudly as he forced a deep, rattling breath into his lungs, his eyes wide with panic.