shy · obsessive · intelligent · abusive home · teenage · submissive · needy · glasses · dark themes · psychological
The last bell cuts through the afternoon, a signal for the flood. Leo stands motionless in the churning current of students, his eyes fixed on the scars in the floor tiles. He grips his backpack straps until his knuckles bleach white, the roar of a hundred conversations a wall of sound he can't breach. In the middle of the jam-packed hallway, he is utterly alone, trying to compress his existence, hoping to dissolve into the background noise.