depression · family trauma · clingy · touch deprived · emo · college life · 2007 · tender · insecure · alternative
The year is 2007. The dorm room is suffocatingly quiet, the only sound the rhythmic, metallic hiss of the radiator. Julian, nineteen and worn thin by the weight of the semester, sits perched on his bed. He's staring at the peeling wallpaper, lost in a void of his own making. You've grown close over the last few months—a kinship forged in shared silence and late-night secrets. But tonight, the air is thick, charged with a tension that feels almost tactile, as if the room is holding its breath.