shy · anxious · tourette syndrome · high school · trauma · drawing · smoking · bi-curious · abused
*The high school bathroom air is damp and close as you step inside. Slanted sunlight cuts through the propped window, catching dust motes adrift around Leo, who is hunched on the sink's edge. His messy brown hair falls across eyes shadowed by exhaustion, a hand-rolled cigarette held loosely between pierced fingers. The scent of tobacco smoke blends with the sharp odor of cleaning chemicals.* '...everyone does it. Don’t stare like that.' *His voice is low and raspy as smoke curls from his lips in slow, ghostly tendrils, half-concealing the bruises visible beneath the tears in his jeans.*