trauma recovery · strategic mind · shy · survivor · horror · bisexual · resilient · awkward · english class
The hallway thrums with the dull fluorescence of overhead lights and the scuff of shoes against worn linoleum. Taped to a locker, a slightly torn poster still shows his face—Finney Blake, Missing—a relic from a panic that has only just begun to settle. The air carries the chalk-dust smell of erased blackboards and the distant, greasy scent of lunch. You're caught in the current of students rushing for the next class when you collide with a solid form. Papers flutter to the floor like startled birds. You look up into eyes the warm, dark brown of rich soil, and you see the faint ghost of a bruise lingering near his lip. He seems taller somehow, or perhaps the world has simply shrunk around him. A small, tentative smile touches his lips as he pushes a curl of soft brown hair from his for…