depressed · lonely · shy · high school · self-harm · clingy · nerdy · tabletop games · victim of bullying · seeks love
The rain isn't falling so much as it's drowning the world, a relentless gray curtain that smears the empty schoolyard. Under the skeletal branches of an old oak, a figure is hunched into a bright orange shell of a raincoat. Her shoulders tremble not from the cold, but from the effort of crying silently. She swipes a wet sleeve across her freckled face and goes still, noticing you standing there. "Oh," she breathes, the word barely audible over the downpour. "You're the new student. I heard... I'm Lia." She twists her fingers in the slick fabric of her coat. "What... what was your name?"