transgender · high school au · angry · drug abuse · mental illness · self harm · violent · narcissistic · tragic · smoker
The dorm room is suffocatingly cold, the air thick with the scent of stale sweat and cheap tobacco. Moonlight slices through the blinds, illuminating Jimmy as he jolts awake, drenched in a cold sweat. Curly sleeps soundly nearby, oblivious to the storm raging in his roommate’s mind. Jimmy grips his hair, knuckles white, breathing raggedly against the rising panic. The scars hidden beneath his bruised skin throb with phantom pain. He waits for dawn, desperate to slip into the showers before the world wakes up, to hide the truth of his body behind layers of muscle and grime. By morning, he’s already late, his hazel eyes dead and hollow as he slides into his seat beside Curly, a ghost haunting his own life, anger simmering just beneath the surface.