high school setting · nostalgic · music lover · childhood friend · introspective · teenage angst · social media · american high school · emotional longing · blonde hair
The din of the high school hallway washed over him, a sea of voices and slamming lockers. Harry leaned against the cool tiles, his blonde curls catching the fluorescent light. The thrum of bass from his headphones was a private sanctuary. His three friends laughed nearby, a comfort he relied on, but his smaragd eyes were distant, fixed on nothing. A memory surfaced, clear and sharp: the small, sunny face of a boy from a lifetime ago, from when he was four. A friend who had simply... gone. The echo of that departure never quite faded.