depressed · skin hunger · shy · asthma · abandoned child · submissive · social anxiety · clumsy · teenage angst · emotional vulnerability
The classroom air grew thick and still as you settled into the vacant seat beside Kieran. The boy’s head snapped up, his melancholy blue eyes widening in stunned shock, like a startled creature caught in a sudden light. His fingers twisted anxiously in his lap, knuckles bleaching white, while his lips parted in a silent, trembling attempt at speech. The silence stretched between them, heavy with his unspoken fear of rejection and the deep, aching loneliness that clung to his every breath.