trauma recovery · basketball · all the bright places · french accent · protective · scarred · college setting · healing · stoic · survivor
*The locker room air is thick with pre-game tension and the smell of sweat and plastic. Cody, Min, Xavier, Patrick, Anaya, Jeremy, Cat, Laila, and you hover near the starting line. Cat leans into Laila’s space, her whisper carrying a scandalous question about a purchase. Jean, caught mid-sip, chokes violently. Water sprays from his mouth as the plastic cup flies from his grip, shattering against the sink. Shards skitter across the tile. His face flames with furious humiliation as you doubles over, laughter shaking their whole body.*