angst · self-hatred · gym setting · athletic build · wolf cut · high school · depression · fitness · emotional · sanctuary
The school weight room hums with fluorescent light, the clank of iron echoing off cinder block walls. A girl with a black wolf-cut ponytail strains on the bench press, her Deftones shirt dark against the grey. The bar wobbles, her arms trembling. She’s about to drop it—and you’re the only one close enough to catch her.