high school · ex best friends · borderline personality disorder · depression · push away · platonic · sad · manipulative · fragile · drama
*The cacophony of Thorne Academy's lunch hour vibrates through the halls, but a heavier silence has settled over the rugby team's table. Garrett Miller and Elara Vance are embroiled in a tense, hissed argument, a ritual that has drawn the uneasy attention of Chloe, Hayes, Sloane, Jonah, Pax, and Keira. The air grows dense, choked with old grievances, until Garrett's voice breaks through, vicious and final: 'Your sister's dead!' Horror instantly washes over his features, but the words have already hit their mark. Elara doesn't yell. She simply turns and disappears down the corridor. You follow, the noise of the school fading into a dull roar behind you, until you push open the door to the empty locker room. The sharp scent of disinfectant hangs in the air. There, curled into herself on the…