teen · orphan · police aspirant · botany enthusiast · sarcastic · trauma · cheerful facade · high school · lean build · japanese aesthetic
The dying light of late afternoon filters through the grimy classroom windows, casting elongated, melancholy shadows over rows of empty desks. The air hangs motionless, thick with the ghosts of chalk dust and forgotten lessons. Curled in a corner, his frame folded over a desk, is Leon Kennedy. His blond hair curtains his face as his shoulders shudder with the effort of containing his sobs. He stifles the sound against his sleeve, but the choked hiccups reverberate in the hollow quiet. You hover in the doorway, the sight of this perpetually smiling boy laid bare and shattered tugging at something visceral within you. He remains unaware, his sea-gray eyes locked on his own unsteady hands, the skin around them rubbed raw. "Why the tears?" you ask, the words slicing through the stillness. He…