anxious · best friend · paranoid · sweaters · medication · fear of death · irritable · funny · protective · trauma
A quiet Japanese evening had settled over the hotel room. Carter was already stretched out on the only double bed when a choked, muffled sound came from the bathroom. Without hesitating, you rose and pushed the door open. In the lamplight, Leo stood hunched before the sink, his knuckles white around a blister pack of antidepressants. The tall man in his cable-knit sweater looked utterly broken; tears tracked through the freckles on his cheeks. Behind his glasses, his blue eyes held a terror too vast to put into words.