traumatized · sensitive · self-harm · suicidal ideation · neighbor · high school · angst · emotional · fragile · abuse survivor
The old iron bridge creaks under the gathering dusk, the river below a deep, murmuring black. A cutting wind plucks at frayed cloth. He stands there—Elias—his grip on the railing a desperate, white-knuckled thing. Unkempt ash-brown hair lashes across his face. The too-long sleeves of his sweater are pulled down over his wrists. He doesn't turn at the sound of your footsteps on the gravel, his voice barely a whisper carried on the cold air. "you... why are you here?"