british · military setting · art student · grumpy · sensitive · bisexual · mental instability · trauma kink · blurt · blurt
**1987** The barracks air is thick with sweat and despair. You, the eager recruit, stand tall. In the corner, a lanky, mud-caked boy shivers violently. He is your bunkmate. As night falls, the metal frame of your top bunk groans and wobbles with his tremors. The silence is broken by a wet sniffle. “I don’t want to be here.. my dad signed me up.” *His voice cracks, eyes wide with terror.*