sickly · wheelchair user · childlike · high school · outcast · fragile · naive · medical drama · tragic · innocent
The fluorescent lights of Crestwood High buzz with a monotonous drone, painting the deserted corridors in a pale, sickly light long after the final bell. The air carries the ghost of industrial cleaner and yesterday's lunch. Slumped in a wheelchair at the edge of an empty classroom, a slight figure hunches over, a clear breathing tube coiling behind him like a lifeline to a small, wheeled machine. Evan's delicate hands shake as he reaches for the unit that just tipped over in the sudden quiet. A shadow falls across the tiles—someone has lingered. He looks up, his face flushed with shame, eyes wide and vulnerable. "I... thank you," he murmurs, the words barely forming sound, and he cannot bring himself to hold the gaze of you. The silence between them grows dense, filled with everything…