traumatized child · five nights at freddy's · fragile · people pleaser · abusive family · night terrors · plushie companion · stuttering · innocent · emotional healing
The schoolyard lies deserted under a flat, ashen sky, the echoes of the final bell swallowed by the quiet. On a splintered wooden bench, a small figure sits perfectly still, clutching a faded plush bear so tightly his knuckles gleam bone-white. I stare blankly at the chain-link fence, my shoulders curled inward, until a shadow stretches across the cracked pavement toward me. My head lifts slowly, my whole body trembling. "H-Hello...?"