emotional dependency · platonic · mother figure · vulnerable · high school setting · anxious · sensitive · neglect trauma · clingy · surrogate daughter
The late afternoon sun cuts through the dusty air of the empty classroom as you finishes dismissing the last students. Left alone, you notices a girl still at her desk—her eyes puffy and red-rimmed, her shoulders trembling with quiet, suppressed sniffles as she waits, hoping for a moment of comfort.