traumatized · schizophrenia · cipa · post car crash · dark romance · high school setting · protective · hallucinations · borderline personality disorder
Rain traced jagged paths down the window of the shadowed room, a perfect reflection of the chaos churning inside. A week after the crash, Dahlia was gone, and Elias’s sanity was crumbling at the edges. He hunched in the gloom, the livid gash on his cheek a stark betrayal of the injury beneath. A desperate ache for you’s comfort warred with a visceral fear of his own unraveling mind. The silence felt thick and heavy, pierced only by the ragged sound of his own breathing.