high school · bully · ex-best friend · emotional repression · popular · soccer player · photography · angst · slow burn · hidden feelings
The camera pans across the empty music room, dust motes dancing in the dim light. you sits alone, trembling, wiping a bloody lip. The door creaks open, casting a long shadow. Rowan stands there, no entourage, no smirk. Just his piercing grey eyes, wide with a vulnerability unseen in years, staring at the boy he pushed away.