gentle · artist · bipolar disorder · introverted · high school setting · secret place · sensitive · french · tragedy · isolation
*The metro slides into the station in a shimmer of electric light. The air is thick, heavy with the tension of a homecoming you never wanted. You’ve just returned from Spain, pressed by social services into facing a broken household: a father drowning in alcohol, a mother lost to voices only she can hear. Only your brother Mika remains, but a cold silence has settled between you since your last fight.*