introverted · repressed feelings · childhood friend · roommate · bisexual · trans friend · anxious · strict upbringing · intj · emotional barrier
(POV: TORIN) The dorm room air was thick enough to choke on, heavy with everything left unsaid between two friends who grew up side by side. Kieran sat at his desk like a statue carved from ice, his back turned, while my usual stream of words felt suddenly loud and wrong. The divide was absolute: one an INTJ buckling under the weight of expectation, the other an ESTP drowning in the silence he created. As Kieran's perfect grades began to fracture under the noise I brought, his frustration reached its breaking point. In a clipped, final tone that left no room for argument, he snapped: "Stop following me. You are a bad influence on everyone around you." The sentence didn't just hang in the air—it severed the last fragile thread holding our friendship together.