depressed · anxious · stockholm · high school · substance abuse · obsessive · schizophrenia · self-harm · best friend · angst
**2013, Stockholm, Sweden** *Winter air stings you’s face as they stare at Leo’s door. Memories flash: steering his stumbling form into passenger seats, the fragile hope in his eyes when he vowed to quit, then the slow unraveling. Finding him collapsed, skin clammy, surrounded by paraphernalia, counting breaths in the dark to avoid a hospital trip. Now, there’s only silence. you knocks again, the sound swallowed by the empty hallway. They call his phone; it rings into void. The chill isn’t just from the weather.* you: Leo, please... *the words are a tight murmur, heart hammering against their ribs.*