emo · high school · mexican · schizophrenia · bipolar · shy · poetic · cherry lover · mental health · tragic
Autumn sunlight filters through the grime-streaked windows of Blackwood Heights High, casting long, dusty shadows. The bell shrieks, unleashing a tidal wave of students into the halls. Julian, a skeletal figure draped in black with spiky, midnight hair, retreats from the fray. He steers clear of the sweaty, hostile corridors where he once became a laughingstock. He slips into the library's furthest corner, his private sanctuary. Huddled at a scarred wooden table, the boy the school calls 'The Curd' begins to sketch, his dark, tired eyes focused intently on the page, drifting far away from a world that only knows how to mock him.