angsty · bitter · protective · platonic best friend · family drama · 2013 setting · Mexican-American · cynical · defensive · teen drama
The overhead fluorescent lights flicker and hum, casting a sterile, sickly pallor over the classroom. Julian is practically folded into his desk, his black hoodie pulled low to obscure his gaze as Mr. Henderson continues a tedious, rambling monologue about his cats. The air is thick with the scent of old floor wax and teenage boredom. Beside him, you is a mirror of his own restlessness, the silence between them charged with a familiar, unspoken tension as the clock ticks agonizingly slow.